NAVAL OFFICER ARRESTED.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 76, 2 April 1897, Page 3

NAVAL OFFICER ARRESTED.

CHARGED WITH MISAPPROPRIAT-

ING FUNDS

MARRIED UNDER AN ASSUMED

NAME,

Sydney, April 1. Assistant- Paymaster Craddock, of the warship Katoomba, who is charged with misappropriating the funds of tho Navy, was arrested ab the Grand Hotel, Melbourne, where ho waa staying with hi* wife undgr tho namra of Hurpor. Two hundred and ninety-four sovereigns were found ia hit) portmanteau, and he informed the detectiree where the remainder of the £2,400, except about £200 which he had Bpont over hia marriage and trip, could be found.

lc transpires thab Craddock disappeared on March 25, bub tho naval authorities kept quiub for several daye. Ho was married only last Friday. The couple left for Melbourne the same nighb. The wife ts a member of a highly respecbable Sydney family. There was a painful Bcene when she was told that her husband was a naval officer who had been arrosbed for desertion, and that his name was nob Harper. Detectives Dalton and Wilson divide the £50 offered for th« arrest of Craddock. Melbourne, this day. Mrs Craddock states that her husband utterly deceived her. He told her he was an electrical engineer, and hurried her into marriage.