WANTED MAN SURRENDERS TO POLICE
SYDXKY, August 1-1. Kei.'h Beckett, alias Hope, who hus heen the subjerl of an intensive setircli in connection with the fatal shooting in Hydney last Bundav of Detective \'. I). Ahearn, gave himself uji at the iScone poliee station at 11.30 p.m. yes terday. Beckett told the poliee that he had heen working and said he had travelled and was staying in a town which' is flO'l miles northwcfl oi' Sydney. Ile entered the station with the farnier 011 uhose property he tilleged he had heen working, and said Iu; had travelled to Scoiiu hy train, arriving there at 3 a.m. on Alondav." lleading in the juiper oi' Ihe man-hunt, he thought he had not ntuch ehiinee of escape aml acrordingly inl'ormed his entployer of liisj identity. The funeral of Detective Ahearn j which was oue of the largest se.-n iii| Xorth Sydney, was attended hy 301; members of the force.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 August 1946, Page 5
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