MURDER.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume I, Issue 10, 11 May 1863, Page 41

MURDER.

- Police Department, ‘ Commissioner’s Office, fDunedin, 11th May, 1863. ' ’ Important.— lnformation is requested concerning the name and address of a man who, on or about Monday, the 23rd of March last, wanted to purchase some flour at the . tent of Joseph Smith, otherwise “Yorky,” (since murdered,) at Miller’s . Hat. The person sou oh t for enquired, the price of flour, and was°told that,’.it'>'?s sold at tenpence a pound. lie "expressed- himself ready ,to take .ten or twelve pounds of it.

The storeman want inside as if to procure it, but turned round and said, “ Will you not take a fifty pound bag ?’’ which the other declined to do. The storeman then said, “He did not care about selling.” Should this meet the eye of the 1 man who wanted to buy the flour on the day above mentioned, at Miller’s Flat, he is earnestly requested to forward his name and address. to the Commissioner of Police, Dunedin, without t’chy.

See Otago Police Gazette , No. 9, , April 27,

1863, page 38. Job .1 Jinson has been committed for trial. I». has liven ascertained that the right name of the murdered man Yorkey was Joseph Smith, and that he formerly resided at Spring Hill andCreswick, in Victoria. ... , . A mare of. the following description, the property of the murdered man, was stolen and has not since been recovered. A reward of £2O will be paid to any person who will give such information as may lead to the recovery of the said mare.

DESCRIPTION. A dark bay mare, branded M or RM on one shoulder, near eye bone fractured in such a manner as to nearly conceal the eye. . Information to any Police station in the Province.