Extracts from “Victoria Police Gazette.”

Otago Police Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 5, 10 May 1875, Page 44

Extracts from “Victoria Police Gazette.”

(Prom Police Gazette, 1875, pages 13 and 60.) ESCAPED PBISOHEBS. Robert Ramsay, escaped from custody at the Williamstown penal establishment about 4.30 p.m., 13th instant, he being then undergoing a sentence of 3 years’ hard labor, passed on him at the Greelong Circuit Court on the 28th April, 1873, for uttering a forged cheque. Description: 31 years of age, sft. sin. high, brown hair, eyes, and eyebrows, low forehead, large nose, which has been broken, large mouth, square visage, rather dark complexion, native of Edinburgh, scar right and left sides, and front of ; head over right eyebrow, left jaw, and back of riglff A} hand ; dressed in blue sac coat, light tweed trousers, ;

check cotton shirt, reel, white, and black woollen muffler, black soft felt hat, and blucher boots. Supposed to make for Camperdown. 0,1339. 16th larch, 1875.

George Stewart, escaped from the custody of Senior-Constable Joyce on board the steamer Otago, at the Queen’s Wharf, Melbourne, on the night of the 17th instant. For description, see Police Gazette, 1874, page 153, under “Incendiarism.” At the time of his escape, he was wearing a dark tweed sac coat and trousers, soft black felt hat, and blucher boots, cut at the sides for corns. His wife lived at Sandridge prior to his absconding to New Zealand, but is now believed to be in service at Kew. He is believed to have a canvas clothes bag with him, such as are used by sailors. £5 reward guaranteed. O, 290. 19th January, 1875. (See Otago Police Gazette, 1874, page 104.)

MISSING FRIEND

Information is requested of James Monson, who was discharged from the Victoria Police Force, at the Russell street Barracks, about 12 years ago, and has not been heard of for the last nine years. He is

about 50 years of age, sft. llin. in height. He was known in the neighborhood of Tylden, where he has, or had, some property. 0,1346. 16th March, 1875.