Police Completing Case Against Bradley

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29334, 13 October 1960, Page 15

Police Completing Case Against Bradley

Two Sydney detectives to complete inquiries for . Stephen Leslie Bradley. Each will interview people who will probably be brought to Sydney during the week-end to testify at the extradition proceedings on Monday. In a Colombo Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Bradley, aged 34. a Hungarian-born Australian, was remanded jn custody for seven , days. He is accused of having ; murdered, kidnapped Graeme Frederick Hilton Thorne, aged 8, at Sydney on or about July 7. Police now expect to have about 30 witnesses at next Monday’s special Court hearing, at which a Magistrate will be asked to order Bradley’s extradition. The hearing is expected to last at least three days. One clue in the case will be a Pekingese dog. which police found late last week. The dog is being closely guarded at an undisclosed boarding kennels, and will remain there until it is brought to Court as an exhibit. In Colombo. Bradley heard the Magistrate tell him he had been , charged with Graeme’s murder ; He answered “yes” when asked • if he understood the gravity of , the charge.

Bradley will spend the next two weeks in his tiny four-foot-by-eight-foot cell before Australian detectives can take him back to Australia on an extradition warrant

The two-week stay is compulsory under Ceylon’s laws. In yesterday’s hearing the Crown counsel asked for a provisional warrant for Bradley’s arrest under the Fugitive Ordinance of 1881 and this was granted. He will appear in Court again on October 18. Bradley was not represented

SYDNEY, October 12. flew to other States today the police case against

and immediately after he was remanded he asked the police to tell the Australian High Commissionei, Mr J. C. Kevin, to get him a lawyer by today. Police said that Bradley had only about £lO. His wife Magda had about £2OO with her aboard the Himalaya. She had offered him some but he had refused. Mrs Bradley and her three young children are continuing the journey and expected to disembark at Marseilles.