A PASSPORT TRICK.
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Received 10.30 p.m., May 24. London, May 24.
Tho Treasury authorities charged Arthur McCollough, actor, and Harold Brailsford, author and journalist, at Bow Street, with conspiring to obtain a passport by means of false pretences. It was alleged that tbey gave tho passport to a man bearing the name of McCollough who was killed in a St. Petersburg hotel in February by a bomb explosion. The Treasury exonerated defondants of all knowledge of the purpose contemplated, Brailsford admitted obtaining three passports at tho instance of a member of the Russian revolutionary movement, receiving tho assurance that thoy were intended for a peaceful propagandist purpose. The hearing was adjourned.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1463, 25 May 1905, Page 2
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115A PASSPORT TRICK. Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1463, 25 May 1905, Page 2
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