THE LAWS LONG ARM.

Evening Star, Issue 4284, 18 November 1876, Page 2

THE LAWS LONG ARM.

At the Hull Police Court on Augtut 18 (saysjdie «Times'), James Octavius Ward, a merchant, was charged -with forcing and , uttering a bill of lading which puroorted to . refer to a parcel of wool and other merektm™f e *° arrive by the Russian steamer Korniloff, Captain l>emme. Ward raised money on this bill of lading and absconded. A de- - scnption of the prisoner was sent to all parts of the world, and eventually Ward was arrested in Fiji. Three times he was taken before magistrates and each time discharged for want of evidence; but Sub-in-spector Hannan, the Fijian officer, feeling convinced that he was the man for whom a reward of LIOO was offered, watched his man from one island to another, and for the fourth time arrested him and charged him with some breach of local law,, on which he *~ secured his remand until the authorities at " Hull oould be communicated with and an officer sent out. Detective Trafford, of the the Hull force, was dispatched to* Fiji v . On arriving there he fully identified v Ward, and received him into his 5 " custody. The officer and his prisoner ; arrived in Hull on Thursday evening, and Wardwras taken before the Court on the following day. Captain Demme was present, and deposed that the signature on the bill of lading produced was a forgery. He also stated that on the voyage to which the fictitious documents referred but grain. This evidence being taken. Ito.e/ ; prisoner was remanded. "■/■■::. rj^r v ' ■'•s£