Pursuing the Kennifs.

Manawatu Herald, 29 April 1902, Page 2

Pursuing the Kennifs.

The Brisbane police have _ again struck the track of the Kennifs, on the great dividing range going in the direction of the Bunya mountains.

In view of the possibilities of those. -, , “undesirable immigrants" arriving ' in Nsw Zealand, the of Police has received from the Criminal Investigation Branch of the . Queensland Police Department a. detailed description of the Kennifs, who are wanted in connection with the recently-reported double murder. James Kennif, the younger of the two brothers, is twenty-seven year* of age, and is a horsebreaker by trade. Qis general appearance is as follows: —sft 7in in height^B*t: 111 b in weight, light brown hair, brown eyes, small whits’ spot the right cheek, two moles on the back, one mole on the right shoulder, a,,., soar on the base of the right thamhjj'" . scars on the second joint of the ficslr 1 finger of the left hand, and two moles on the right cheek. • . 'Hi*' brother Patrick is thirty-seven years’ ’" of age, a labourer, sft 9|iQ in height, weighing Hat 81b, with dark hair, , hazel eyes, a woman’s bust* and throe' doves with branches in their mouths tattooed on his right biceps, *>;, -? woman’s head with a chain round the neck and five doves with branches in their mouths tattooed on the left biceps, a scar on the right forearm, and a scar on the back of the head. When discharged from gaol last _ month he had grown a moustache,” but no whiskers.