MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume II, Issue 7, 28 March 1864, Page 41

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

Police Department, Commissioner’s Office, Dunedin, 28th March, 1864.

Return of Appointments, &c., since the PUBLICATION OF THE LAST LIST : APPOINTMENT as CONSTABLE. Cameron, Peter (435)

In all cases where the Police have to obtain evidence as to the correspondence between footmarks and the shoes of suspected persons , they must be careful not to place the shoe of the suspected person on, or in the ground footmark for the purpose of measuring the two. The proper way of proving that a certain footmark was made by a certain shoe, is to make a fresh mark with the shoe alongside the footmark, and then to compare the two together by minute observation and careful measurement.

St. John Branigan, Commissioner of Police.

NAME. . SENTENCE. OFFENCE. WHEN TRIED. WHERE TRIED. John Clemmens 4 months labor ...... Vagrancy Nov. 16, 1863 Dunedin Donald M‘Fherson ... 4 days do Assaulting a constable Mar. 21' 1864 Do. Edward Kirwin 4 day3 do Breach of the peace & assaulting a constable Mar. 22, ... Do. John Spring 4 weeks do. ...... 4 months labor 4 days do 4 day3 do 4 weeks do Vagrancy Vagrancy Assaulting a constable Breach of the peace & assaulting a constable Vagrancy Feb. 19, ... Nov. 16, 1863 Mar. 21, 1864 Mar. 22, ... Feb. 19, ...Pert Chalmers Dunedin Do. Do. Pert Chalmers John Wilson, alias Howden 4 months do Vagrancy Nov. 16, ... Dunedin Samuel Jackson Stealing tea.. Feb. 4, ... Do. Jane O’Kean Stealing gold Jan. 19, ... Waitahuna Archibald M‘Neil .... 4 months do 6 weeks do 2 months do 18 months do. ...... Vagrancy . Stealing tea Stealing gold Horse stealing Nov.16, ... Feb. 4, ... Jan. 19, ... Jan. 3, 1863 Dunedin Do. Waitahuna Dunedin

Return of Prisoners Discharged from the Dunedin Gaol, during the Fortnight ending March 26th, 1864.