ARRESTED IN BOMBAY
I WELL-KNOWN AUSTRALIAN
i INSTRUCTIONS .FROM SYDNEY POLICE.
ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.
SYDNEY. January 19.
John Woolcott-Forbes. who is widely known in commercial and racing circles here, was arrested by the Bombay police in accordance with cabled instructions from the Sydney police when the liner Stralhnavar arrived there. He has been released on bail pending the hearing of an application for his extradition to Sydney. In the meantime Douglas Jowett Bush has been arrested in Brisbane on the charge that he conspired and agreed with Woolcott-Forbes and other persons to defraud the Producers and General Finance Corporation and other
persons of large sums of money. Bush has been remanded to Sydney.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1939, Page 5
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117ARRESTED IN BOMBAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1939, Page 5
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