DEFENCE OF ESCAPERS
Former C. 1.8. Man To Help (N.Z. Press Assn.— Copyright) . MELBOURNE, Jan. 17. The Pentridge gaol breakers, Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker, will have a former deputy chief of the Melbourne C. 1.8. working for their defence at the inquest, into the death of Prison Officer George Hodson, on February 3. He is Mr W. H. (“Harry”) McMennemin, aged 63, who spent 39 years in the police force. Now he is a law- clerk in his son’s firm, which is representing Ryan and Walker, charged with the murder of the warder shot dead outside Pentridge Gaol on December 19.
‘1 handle all my son Roy’s criminal briefs, and I’ll be at the bar table instructing our barrister,” Mr McMennemin said today. Handling the briefs for the Crown will be his main opponent, the chief of the homicide squad, Detective Inspector Frank Holland, who once worked under Mr McMennemin as a senior detective and detective sergeant.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30961, 18 January 1966, Page 7
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158DEFENCE OF ESCAPERS Press, Volume CV, Issue 30961, 18 January 1966, Page 7
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