Hi List, I just love some of the descriptions they used. But poor old Joseph LEECH may have had no choice but to take Letitia WATT. I have uploaded the Gazette index to 20/4/1855 onto the web site. (see signature) Victoria Police Gazette, April 20, 1855: Extracts from N.S.W. Crime Reports. "Joseph LEECH is charged with stealing, at 9 o'clock in the evening of the 7th day of March, 1855, four blankets, several shirts, and about eight pounds in money, in one pound notes, the property of Joseph WATT, at Greenhills. Joseph LEECH is about 50 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, fair complexion with burly face, light hair, walks very badly, having had a bad leg for many years, and has very short feet; dressed in moleskin trousers, Scotch twill shirt, blue frock, cabbage-tree hat, and laced-up boots. He left in company with the wife of the man he robbed, who is a tall masculine woman, of fair complexion and light hair; she has a large nose, with a deep dent on the bridge, is about 35 years of age, and very wild in her behaviour. The parties have been seen making for Goulburn, and the woman has taken the name DAVIS, who says she has a husband in that town. Joseph WATT offers a reward of five pounds for the apprehension of LEECH and his wife, Letitia WATT. Warrants have been granted by the Shoalhaven Bench." Cheers Jacqui Cunningham Central Victoria http://www.oldnewscopy.com "It's Old News!"