Extract from Victorian Police Gazette, 3rd September, 1863, page 318.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume I, Issue 19, 14 September 1863, Page 98

Extract from Victorian Police Gazette, 3rd September, 1863, page 318.

David Holland is charged on warrant with forgery on Jobn-Mulane or Modewarre/ near Danced/ on £ the 29th August, 1863. ' “ The offender is aged 35, 5 feet 7 inches high, stout build, about 12 stone weight, brown ' hair/ whiskers sandy, and short near the ears, fresh' ert on the right side of the nose, hazel eyes, heavy eyelashes, and grinning expression-of, face; wore blue pilot monkey jacket dark double-breasted vest, Bedford cord trousers, and black billycock hat; supposed to be making for Aew Zealand. "

Extract from . Victoria Police Gazette 30th July, 1863, page 277..

Child Stealing.— One Hundred Pounds Reward.— -Whereas on the evening of Sunday, 30th March, 1862, . Elizabeth Hunter, 8 ; years old, was decoyed away by a respectably dressed man from the bottom of (Ire n Man’s lane, Frog, lane, Lower road, Islington, and not having been heard of up to the present time, 9th May 7 , 1863, Her Majesty’s Government hereby offer a reward of £SO for the discovery ant: conviction of the person. ( or persons , who. decoyed away the said. Elizabeth Hunter; and Sir George Grey 7 , Her Majesty’s Secretary of State, will advise the grant of Her' Majesty’s; pardon to any accomplice, not being the person; who actually .stole the child in question, who shall give such , evidence as shall lead to the conviction of the offender. . '

And . whoever will give .such information as will lead to /the recovery.. of the child, and

conviction of the offender, to J. B. Talbot secretary to the London Society for the Seet Ct Lit ° f Y -n lng F ? males 28 New Broad of £SO C 3 ’ W 1 reo€lve a further reward

hW Z w'£- llm , ter 18 of P ale complexion, has light hair and eyes, and a large scar on one of her cheeks, and had a pair of gold wires in her ears. b .