EXTRACTS FROM NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE GAZETTE.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume II, Issue 2, 18 January 1864, Page 10

EXTRACTS FROM NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE GAZETTE.

From Police Gazette , 16th September, 1863. Escaped Prisoner. — ’escaped on the 11th instant, from the Penal Establishment, Cocka-

too Island,. Frederick Brittain and Frederick Ward— the i former convicted of mail robbery the latter of cattle stealing. Brittain is a nati, e of Hobart Town, a laborer, 25 years of age, s'feet 8 inches high, fair ruddy complexion, light brown hair and hazel ever. Ward is a native of Windsor, New South Wales, a lat orer. 27 years of age, 5 feet 8| inches high, pale sallow complexion, light brown curly hair, hazel grey eyes, nude on wrist, and two warts on back of middle finger on left hand.

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 th, ir escape from Her Majesty’s Gaol, Rerrima : Notice is hereby given that a reward of Twtnty-five p ninds will he 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 named. Charles Cowper. Colonial Secretary’s Office.

Sydney. 12th October. 1863. DESCRIPTION OF TEE ESCAPED PRISONERS. Job:oi. alias Weeks, native of’ Rungoria, farmer, 29 \ears of age, 5 fi et 6i inches high, stout build, fresh complexion, brown. hair, blue eyes, i urn on left arm. Marshall is a native of Albury, shoemaker, 30 y ears of nga 5 fiet 11 inch' s high, slight build, brown hair, grey eyes, fair complexion. Reilly is a shoemaker, 35 years of age, 5 feet 6i inches high, slig. t 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 FreJerick Brittain and Frederich Ward, effected tin escape from the Penal Establishment at Cdckaoo 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 rudely 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 Lack of middle finger of left hand.

Twenty-five Pounds Reward,

M liereas on the 3rd instant, a prisoner named William Mackie escaped from the custody 7 of the Police, whiLt under escort, by jumping from a railway train in otion, between airfield and Parramatta Junction: Notice is hereby given, that a reward of

Twenty-five pounds will he 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. Mnckie 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.

From Police Gazette , 4th November, 1863

Miscellaneous Information

On the evening of the 24th ultimo, the house of Mr. Commissioner Keightly, Dunn’s Plains, near Rocldey, was attacked by Gilbert , O'Me ally , Hall , Vane , and Burke. Five or six shots were fired at Mr. Keightley, who armed himself with a double-barrelled gun, only one barrel of which was loaded, and aiming at Burke, wounded him in the abdo me t, from the effects of which he has since died. The offenders extorted <£soo for Mr. Keightley’s release, the amount being paid in Bank notes hereunder described :

Extract from New South Wales Police Gazette , 9th December, 1863, page 372 . About 10 a.m. the ‘2nd instant, James Coffi e, Farmer, near Burrowa, w r as stopped at Coffee’s Creek, near Burro by two armed men, John Gilbert and Ben Hall, and robbed of £37. These offenders are said to have stopped and searched several other persons about the same time and place. About 3 p.m. on ■ the sth instant, the mail from burrowa to Binalong, was stopped about 2 miles from Smelly’s Creek, and about 6 miles from Burrowa, bj- two armed men, John Gilbert, and Ben Hall s nd robbed of the mail bags, which the offenders cut open and rifled of their contents; there was one man on the

mail whom the offenders did not attempt to rob. I hey gave the mailman a large-sized gold watch to give to Mr. Scott, Burrowa. description. John Gilbert , about 21 years’ of age, 5 feet 82 incites high, slight active figure, brown hair not very long, no hair nor any particular marks on face, light grey laughing eyes, round nostrils, thick lips, care-worn in appearance.

. Ben Hall , about 28 years’ of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, stout build, (would weigh about 13 stone 7 lbs.), figure erect, respectable appearance, light brown wavy hair, short light beard, thick, but darker near his throat, and very pleasing expression of countenance, soft grey eyes, handsome nose inclined to be hooked, and thin compressed lips.

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