CONSPIRACY CHARGE
ACCUSED IDENTIFIED IN SINGAPORE (Rec. 11.0) SINGAPORE, July 17. Walter Cecil Byrne, of the Sydney Criminal Investigation Bureau in the Singapore district court, to-day identified George Stamford as Stanley Hammond, who last month failed to appear in the Sydney court to answei a charge of conspiracy. The judge withdrew bail and remanded the accused in custody until July 22. The accused, who to day answered to the name of Stamford, allegedly arrived at Singapore from Australia last month as a stowaway aboard an Avro Anson. He was -charged under the alias of Stanley Hammond with conspiring, with two other men, between January, 1944 and June, 1945, in New South Wales to cheat certain persons of money and valuable securities by offering them shares in a company.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19470718.2.27
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 236, 18 July 1947, Page 3
Word Count
128CONSPIRACY CHARGE Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 236, 18 July 1947, Page 3
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in