SPECIAL NOTICES.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume LVIII, Issue 29, 26 July 1933, Page 487

SPECIAL NOTICES.

Murder. Wellington. —At noon on the 30th ultimo, the dead body of George Noel Smith, aged four years and three months, was found on the beach near Point Halswell. Later, the same day, this boy’s mother, Cecilia Smith, was found dead in her home at 27 Ohiro Road, and George Edward James was arrested and charged with murdering her. James owned a bicycle with which he was seen at 8.45 o’clock on the morning of the 30th ultimo, when ho was leaving 27 Ohiro Road. This bicycle has not been found, and as he is believed to have used it to convey the boy from the latter’s home to Point Halswell where he drowned him, the discovery of the bicycle is of great importance. Urgent inquiries are therefore to be made to obtain information which may assist in finding it. Description: A gentlemen’s black-enamelled Couchman, No. 4740, Couchman transfer on front, rear carrier, Romac tires, Eadie coaster hub, reversible handles, Mason three-coil saddle, rubber pedals, and black steel mudguards.

Property missing from Police-station. Wellington.On the 21st May, 1933, the personal effects of Mrs. Ida Lincoln, who was that day killed in a motor accident at Porirua, were placed in the watchhouse, but disappeared from there during the ensuing two weeks. Description : A ladies’ chocolate-coloured overcoat with fur around neck ; a light-red dress ; a ladies’ gold wristlet- watch, round dial with fluted edge, gold hands and figures, gold expanding band with small spring attached to centre link in each compartment; a dark-gold band wedding-ring ; a ladies’ gold ring set with an oblong cluster of diamonds in flat setting ; one string of imitation pearls (may be reddish in colour); a ladies’ brown imitation-leather handbag, folding flap and has gold-coloured fastener at side ; four suitcase keys ; a child’s knife and fork ; a Palmerston North motor-driver’s license for 1933 in name of Mrs. Ida Lincoln ; a pair of spectacles; an upper set of artificial teeth ; two pairs of child’s black shoes, sizes seven and nine ; a red straw hat ; two other hats ; a gentleman’s cap ; a pair of ladies’ gloves.; and a ladies’ large shopping kit made of red and black raffia. Any information regarding the missing property to be forwarded to the Superintendent oL Police, Wellington. T<L 0 ((jl,

Death of New Zealand Criminal. Wellington.-— The death at Wellington Hospital on the Ist September, 1932, of Arthur Gifford St. Clair - Isbester, referred to in Police Gazette, 1932, page 397, is notified for the information of members of the Force. (C.R. 33/125.)