EXTRACTS FROM NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE GAZETTE.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume I, Issue 26, 21 December 1863, Page 134

EXTRACTS FROM NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE GAZETTE.

From Police Gazette, 16th September, 1863.. Escaped Prisoner. —Escaped on the 11th instant, from the Penal Establishment, Cockatoo Island, Frederick Brittain and Frederick Ward —the former convicted of mail robbery, the latter of cattle stealing. Brittain is a native of Hobart Town, a laborer, 25 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, fair ruddy complexion, light brown hair and hazel eyes. . Ward is a native- of- Windsor, . New South Wales, a laborer, 27 years of age, 5 feet 8| inches high, pale sallow complexion, light brown curly hair, hazel grey eyes, mole on wrist, and two warts on back of middle finger on left hand.

From Police Gazette, 28th Sept., 1863. . See Government Gazette , 27th Oct., 1863, page 2325. £4OOO REWARD FOR THE APPRHENSION OF JOHN Gilbert, John O’Meally, Benjamin Hall and John Vane, and ; £IOO reward for ACCOMPLICES. Whereas the above-named persons are charged with the commission of numerous • and serious offences, and have hitherto eluded the efforts to apprehend them : It is hereby notified that the Government will . pay a. reward of One thousand pounds for such information as- will lead to the apprehension of each of the offenders named.

The Government will also pay a reward of one hundred pounds for such information as will lead to the conviction of any person or persons for harboring, assisting, or maintaining any of the above-named offenders.. All such information communicated by any person charged with the commission , of an offence, will entitle his case to favorable conconsideration by - the Crown, and will in all cases-be regarded by the police authorities as strictly confidential; and in the event of payment of any of the rewards above offered, the name of the recipient will not be disclosed. The above rewards are offered in lieu of all others previously payable by Government for the apprehension or conviction of the offenders above-named. William Forster, Colonial Secretary’s Office, Sydney, 27th October, 1863.

See Government Gazette , 13th October, 1863, page 2175. Seventy-five Pounds Reward. Whereas on the night of the 15th September last, three convicts named' John Jobson, alias

Weeks Joseph Marshall , and John Reilly , effected their escape from Her Majesty’s Gaol, Berrima : Notice is hereby given that a reward of Twenty-five pounds will be paid by the Government to any person who may first give such information as shall lead to the re-apprehension of eac.. of the offenders named. Charles Cowper. .

Colonial Secretary’s Office. Sydney, 12th October, 1863. description OF the ESCAPED prisoners. Jobson, alias Weeks, native of Bungonia s farmer, 29 years of age, 5 feet inches high, stout build, fresh complexion, brown hair, blue eyes, burn on left arm.. Marshall is a native of Albury, shoemaker, 30 years of age, 5 feet 11 inches high, slight build, brown hair, grey eyes, fair complexion. Reilly is a shoemaker, 35 years of age, 5 feet 6j inches high, slight build, sallow complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes, lame in right leg, halts in his walk.

Fifty Pounds Reward. Whereas on the 11th September last, two convicts, named Frederick Brittain and Frederick Ward , effected 1 their escape from the Penal Establishment at Cockatoo Island : Notice is hereby given that a reward of twenty-five pounds will be paid by the Government to any person who may. first give such information as shall lead to the ■ re-apprehension of ' each of the offenders. Charles Cowper.

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Sydney, 12th October, 1863. DESCRIPTION OF ESCAPED PRISONERS. Brittain is a native of Hobart Town, a laborer, ,25 years o': age, 5 feet 8 inches high, fair ruddy complexion, light brown hair, and hazel eyes. Ward is a native of Windsor, New South Wales, a laborer, 27 years of age, 5 feet Scinches high, pale, sallow complexion, light brown curly hair, hazel grey eyes, mole on right wrist,, and two warts hack. of ’ middle finger of left hand.

Twenty-five Pounds Reward. Whereas on the 3rd instant, a prisoner named William Machie escaped from the custody of the Police, whilst under escort;; by jumping from, a railway train- in motion,between Fairfield and Parramatta Junction: Notice is hereby given, that a reward of Twenty-five pounds will be paid by the Government to any person who may first give such information as will lead to the re-appre-hension of the offender. Charles Cowper, Colonial Secretary’s Office, Sydney, 12th October, 1863. DESCRIPTION. Mackie is about 24 years of age, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, sallow complexion, light brown hair, grey eyes, nose inclining to left side, arms slightly freckled, small' dark hole outside lower part of right arm, scar on ball of left thumb, another on back of top joint of little finger of same hand, breast hairy : native of Sydney,