AFTER SEVEN YEARS.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18139, 2 October 1930, Page 7

AFTER SEVEN YEARS.

ARRESTED FOR MURDER. GLENFERRIE TRAGEDY RECALLED. LONG SEARCH BY POLICE. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. MELBOURNE, October 1. The long arm of the law was again in evidence yesterday when the police arrested Richard .Buckley. They had been searching for him for seven years and the authorities had offered a reward of £SOO for his apprehension. Buckley has been charged with the murder of Richard Berriman, bank manager, in the -suburb of Glenferrie in October, 1923. Angus Murray, whom the Crown alleged was implicated in this crime, was convicted and hanged on April 14, 1924. Buckley, who is 67 years old, was caught, in a small cottage which the police surrounded and raided. His arrest has caused a sensation.

Mr Berriman, manager of the Hawthorn branch of the 'Commercial Bank, was accosted outside the Glenferrie railway station on October 8, 1923, by two armed men who tried to wrest from him a suitcase containing £lßsl in notes. When he resisted one of the men shot him and took the money. They then ran up a lane, at the end of which was a waiting motor-car in which they drove away. Two men who attempted pursuit were forced to desist when they were threatened with shooting. Mr Berriman subsequently succumbed to his wounds. The police connected Angus Murray, who had broken from gaol some months previously, and Richard Buckley with the case and Murray was arrested within a week. He was tried, convicted, and executed. The police, however, were unable to locate Buckley, though they inaugurated and maintained an intensive searoh.