ABSCONDER FROM BAIL.
CAUGHT AFTER SIXTEEN ’YEARS.
VIGILANT SYDNEY DETECTIVES.
A man who absconder from bail .sixteen years ago has been arrested in Sydney, New South Wales, where Me returned probably in the belief that the old charge against him had bc«n forgotten. But he reckoned without the vigilance of Ideal detectives. In 1911 the man was, arrested on a charge of stealing silk from a Sydney warehouse. He was released on bail pending his trial, and. disappeared. Actually he went abroad, and has been in England, France, and Russia since. He returned with an English wife.
The man was greatly astonished when detectives accosted him in the street and told him he "was wanted. Now they are busy in getting together the witnesses in the 16-year-old case. Some of them are no longer in Sydney, and on© is now 75. years of age. The man had been back in Sydney a month and it was by chance that the police heard of his rethirn. It took them a week to locate him and lay him by the heels. This is a record for the operation of the “long arm of the law” in Australia,,
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5178, 14 September 1927, Page 3
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195ABSCONDER FROM BAIL. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5178, 14 September 1927, Page 3
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