CAREER OF PRISON ESCAPES
Rec. 9 p.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 28. The deportee from America who mysteriously disappeared yesterday from the freighter Bernard L. Rodman off Sydney is an escaped convict, Malcolm Charles Boyle, aged 25. Boyle, who is known in Darwin as Houdim, was arrested in Darwin six months ago on a theft charge. He escaped from the police station but was arrested the following evening in an R.A.A.F. officers’ mess, where he was masquerading as a naval officer. He was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on the stealing and escape charges, but after serving a few weeks of the sentence he escaped again. The police believe that he boarded an R.A.A.F. courier plane to the Philippines, where he again masqueraded as an Australian officer and passed fraudulent cheques in the name of the Australian Consul. He continued on to the United States, where he ran foul of the F. 8.1. He is also wanted in Newcastle on a false pretences charge.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26631, 29 November 1947, Page 7
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162CAREER OF PRISON ESCAPES Otago Daily Times, Issue 26631, 29 November 1947, Page 7
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