INQUIRIES, ETC., FROM OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume L, Issue 30, 29 July 1925, Page 434

INQUIRIES, ETC., FROM OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND.

Melbourne (Victoria). —A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Alfred Sydney Arnold Du Bisson, charged with stealing at Adelaide on the 28th ultimo £316 10s., the property of his employers, Murray Aunger Motor Company (Limited), Franklin Street, Adelaide. Description : Age about thirty, height about 6 ft. 4 in., clerk, native of Australia, medium build, fair complexion, fair hair going bald, clean-shaved, long features ; well dressed and well educated. His photograph and a specimen of his handwriting are filed in the Commissioner’s Office, Wellington. (P. 25/962.)

Sydney (New South Wales).A‘warrant has been issued for the arrest of Adam Crow Halliday for, on the 23rd ultimo, obtaining £3 from George Buxton Popplewell by means of a valueless cheque for that amount. Description : Age fortythree, height about 5 ft. 7 in., gardener, native of Scotland, medium build, fair complexion, brown hair going bald, grey eyes, full face, -shaved, artificial upper teeth, two faint scars on right cheek near nose, woman’s head on right forearm, man’s head on left forearm ; dressed in a grey or brown sac suit, soft-felt hat, brown shoes, and dark-blue overcoat; slightly deaf. He may seek employment through seed and plant merchants or at nurseries. His arrest and extradition are desired. (P. 25/961.)

Adelaide (South Australia).— Two warrants have been issued for the arrest of Robert Scott for, on the 11th April last, at Tumby Bay, fraudulently converting £326 4s. 9d. to his own use, the property of John Aird Laurie ; and on the 19th May last, at Tumby Bay, obtaining £IOO from Horace Howard Swaffer by falsely representing that F. Lewis, of the General Havelock Hotel, Adelaide, owed him the sum of £1,400. Description: Age about thirty-six, height 5 ft. 6 in., ex-hotelkeeper, medium build, fair complexion and hair, cleanshaved, eyes partially closed; flashily dressed. He is supposed to have come to New Zealand en route to America, and inquiries at passport and shipping offices might assist in locating him. For photograph see South Australian Police Gazette, 1925, page 191. His arrest and extradition are desired. < p - 2557 -/ -zjc ,