DESERTERS FROM MERCHANT VESSELS.
I“from d r S f e night A ot the 23rd Nov. CMmerTS- h schooner "Amycas,- »t Port f eeffi” fT 5 a V e TT n - 23 P ears old, 5 black half. 7 lnches h « h ' ; dart com P le^on, 3 (S”v? Mathias, able seaman, 25 years old, lookino- 2 ' nCheS hjS1 ’ Smart active build, good-
. . David Jones, able seaman, 5 feet 8 inches high, regular features, good-looking. Daniel Marks, .'Ordinary seaman, 19 years old, 5 feet 8 inches high, stout awkward gait. James Matthews, ordinary seaman, 18 years old, 5 feet 64 inches high, full. round face, good-looking. James Staton, 18 years old, 5 feet 7 inches high, coarse-looking. William Morgan, 16 years , old, 5 feet 7 inches high, thin built.
Deserted during the night of the 23rd Nov. , 1863, from the British ship Persian, at Port Chalmers: —-
Edward Morton , 35 years old, 5 feet 5 inches high, light hair, no whiskers under the chin.
George Roberts, 30 years old, 5 feet 10 inches high, very dark complexion, small dark whiskers, shaved under the chin..
Joseph Goodman, 20 years old, 5 feet 6 inches high, stout build, fair complexion, light hair, no whiskers. Jackson, 25 years old, 5 feet 10 inches high, a small piece gone from his nose. Henry Prendergast , 25 years old, 5 feet 54inches high, dark sun-burnt complexion, dark hair and whiskers.
John Murphy, 5 feet 5 inches high, reddish full face, light hair, small auburn whiskers.
. . Deserted on the 27th November, 1863, from the British ship Persian, at Port Chalmers : — '
Benjamin Taylor Boatswain, 30 years old, 5 feet 10 inches high, medium build, dark complexion, hair, whiskers and beard, very round-shouldered, a Scotchman, . dressed in light moleskin trowsers, 'white jacket and Scotch bonnet.
William Baker, ordinary seaman, 19 years old, 5 feet 6 inches high, medium build, fair comDlexion, brown hair, no beard or whiskers, a native of Devonshire. - £1 reward for each of these men.
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Otago Police Gazette, Volume I, Issue 26, 21 December 1863, Page 135
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