EMBEZZLEMENT.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume II, Issue 7, 28 March 1864, Page 38

EMBEZZLEMENT.

A warrant has been issued by the Dunedin Bench for the arrest of Peter H. Smith, late a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Dalrymple and Co., Princes-street, Dunedin, charged with embezzling various sums of money received by him for and on account of his employers. Smith is about 27 years old, 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, ruddy complexion as': if from drink, brown . hair, . whiskers, and moustache, has lost 2 or 3 front , teeth from upper jaw ; a Scotchman ; dressed in blue sacque coat, dark trousers, and light felt hat. Supposed to have left Dunedin, per steam ship Omeo , for Auckland, on the 23rd March, 1864.