FELONIES AND OFFENCES NOT OTHERWISE DESCRIBED.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume II, Issue 9, 1 September 1865, Page 45

FELONIES AND OFFENCES NOT OTHERWISE DESCRIBED.

A warrant has been issued by the Dunedin Bench for the apprehension of John Gumming, charged with deserting his family. He is described as being about 20 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, stout build, fresh complexion, black curly hair, no whiskers, dark eyes, wears a small goatee beard, a native of'Devonshire, England. Left Hokitiki about a month since in the “ John Bullock,” and now supposed to be in the Province of Nelson. V '

A warrant has been issued by the Dunedin Bench for the apprehension of William Whittle, charged with deserting his children. He is described as being 30 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, stout build, fair ; complexion, ./light hair, little or no whiskers y supposed to be now-at Hokitiki, .Canterbury. Province.

A warrant has been issued by the Dunedin Bench for the apprehension of Richard Campbell Sham, charged with embezzling the sum of one hundred’pounds or thereabouts, the monies of John M‘Lean, Esq., Manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Dunedin. The following is the description of Sham, who left the Dunstan on the 25th August, 1865, and is supposed i to

have 'gone overland to . Invercargill: about 6 feet 1 inch high, 27 years of age, ; sandy. hair no whiskers, , moustaches rather short and thick, long- in the legs, with body, hardly in proportion, oated face and bloodshot eyes, an Englishman.