✨ Escaped Prisoners Reward Notices
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Provincial Secretary.
VOL VII.] SATURDAY, APRIL 30TH, 1859. **[No: 9.]
ESCAPED PRISONERS.
REWARD!
WHEREAS the undermentioned prisoners escaped from the Gaol at Wellington, on Monday, the 4th day of April instant, this is to give notice that the reward attached to the several names of the Prisoners enumerated below, will be paid to any person or persons who shall effect the capture of any of them, and lodge them in the Gaol at Wellington.
JOHN WOODS, £50.
Age 44, height 5 feet 7¾ inches, full face, broad flat nose, sallow complexion. When seen last, bleeding profusely from the forehead.
WILLIAM SHIELDS, £10.
Age 29, 5 feet 6 inches in height, dark complexion, diamond ⋄ J. A. and two dots on left arm, fingers all marked, back of hand marked Y.
JOHN D’ARCY, £10.
Age 40, height 5 feet 6 inches, very stout, full round face, red whiskers, sandy complexion, hair of the head very thin, and bald on the top.
WILLIAM DARLEY, £10.
Age 21, height 5 feet 9¼ inches, thin body, dark complexion, dark hair, and whiskers; formerly in H. M. 65th Regt.
JAMES KELLY, £10.
Age 22, height 5 feet 10½ inches, body very thin, sallow complexion, black hair, no whiskers, black eyes much sunken in the head; supposed to be wounded.
Seven marks on left thumb, two moles on the left side. Right arm, five marks in the shape of a diamond and under it a mole.
N.B.—All the prisoners had on, at the time of their escape, gaol clothing marked W.G.
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1859.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1859, No 9
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⚖️ Reward for Capture of Escaped Prisoners
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement6 April 1859
Escaped prisoners, Reward, Gaol, Wellington
- John Woods, Escaped prisoner with £50 reward
- William Shields, Escaped prisoner with £10 reward
- John D'Arcy, Escaped prisoner with £10 reward
- William Darley, Escaped prisoner with £10 reward
- James Kelly, Escaped prisoner with £10 reward
- William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary