EXTRADITION ORDER
MAN FROM MELBOURNE CHARGE OF. THEFT (!Per Preis Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A man arrested in Auckland on a provisional warrant issued in Melbourne, Victoria, on July 4, Thomas Frederick BergholT, aged 42, appeared in the Police Court yesterday before Mr. F. I-I. Levien, S.M., who made an order for his extradition to Melbourne in the custody of Detective A. J. White.
Berghoff was charged that at Prahan, Victoria, between May 16 and June 23, being a clerk or servant in the employ of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, he stole a sewing machine.
Detective White produced the original warrant which, he said, he read to the accused. Berghoff admitted he was the person named in the warrant. Detective White asked that the accused be remanded to Melbourne where the oflence was alleged, to have been committed and where the original warrant was issued.
Evidence was also given by Detec-tive-Sergeant Trcthewcy who said he arrested the accused toy virtue of a provisional warrant. The Magistrate then made an order for the accused’s extradition. Escorted by Detective White, the accused left last evening in the Monowai for Australia.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 16
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189EXTRADITION ORDER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 16
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