EXTRADITION ORDER GRANTED
APPLICATION HEARD AT
AUCKLAND (PRESS .ASSOCIATION TELEORA.M.) AUCKLAND, August 22. ; A man arrested in Auckland on a provision warrant issued in Melbourne, Victoria, on July 4, Thomas Frederick Berghoff, aged . 42, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court before Mr F. H. Levien, S.M.,’ Who made an order for his extradition to Melbourne iij the custody of Detective A. J. White. Berghoff was charged that at Praham, Victoria;' between May 16 and June 23, being a clerk or servant in the employ of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, he stole a sewing, machine. Detective! White produced the original j warrant,. which he said' he had read, .to the .'accused. Berghoff admitted .that he was ; the person named, in the. warrant. Detective White asked that the accused be remanded. -to Melbourne where the offence was alleged to have been committed, and where, the original warrant was' issued. ' Evidence was also given lay. Detec-tive-Sergeant Trethewey, who said that he arrested the accused by virtue of a provisional Warrant. The Magistrate then made an order for the accused’s extradition. Escorted by Detective White, the accused will leave this evening in , the Monowai. for Australia, ", ,
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22796, 23 August 1939, Page 12
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192EXTRADITION ORDER GRANTED Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22796, 23 August 1939, Page 12
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