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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 108, 29 December 1931, Page 6

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AMERICAN DETECTIVES IDENTIFY AUSTRALIAN FROM A PHOTOGRAPH ADELAIDE, Saturday. Evidence painstakingly gathered by Adelaide detectives helped American detectives to arrest Charles E. Murphy, who will appear in Los Angeles court on Monday on a charge of having murdered his wife. Murphy, who was sought for years ,on two charges of murder and other crimes, served in the war with the A.I.F. and with the Ameriean Army. When Sergeant Paddick, of the Adelaide C.I.B., received a circular from a sheriff of Washington early last year, asking for co-operation in the search for a man named Lindsay, believed to be in Australia, Paddick remembered the wanted man looked like another man for whom the Ameriean police had enquired in 1921. In each case, the charge was murder. Checking over photographs, and allowing for the differenee in age, Paddick was convinced that the men were identical, and sent the information to America. Then Detective Harrell discovered more about the man, and, found photographs of him. He also discovered that his real name was Murphy, and this information was sent to the Ameriean police, who searched the Ameriean Army reeords, and found fingerprints of the man they had been seeking. For 18 months afterwards Murphy eluded the police., and was then arrested. The Ameriean police have expressed high appreciation of the smart work of the South Australian police on the case.