NO TRACE OF ABSCONDERS
Another Fails To Appear The Christchurch police think that a man who failed to appear in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court yesterday when on remand on bail on two charges of receiving stolen property may have left New Zealand by air for Australia late last week.
The man, John Sharrock, aged 42, a contractor, was formerly in the scrap metal business. The police say he knew the five other men who failed to appear in the Court on Wednesday on charges of theft and receiving. Sharrock was not ordered to report to the police when granted bail. The police, acting on information received, are convinced that Sharrock left Christchurch before last Sunday.
The police have found no trace of the five other men, William Maurice Corcoran, Peter Thomas Shearer, Edward James George Ure, Thomas Robert Allingham, and Kevin Barrett. These men were reporting each morning and evening to the police while on bail but failed to report last Tuesday. The police have checked with all airports and have circulated their descriptions to aircraft crews and airport officials. They are fairly certain the men did not leave New Zealand by air on Tuesday or Wednesday, and have not left by air since. The only ship which sailed from a New Zealand port for Australia on Tuesday or Wednesday was the Karamu, which left Port Chalmers for Melbourne on Wednesday. The C. 1.8. consorting squad has bad a report that the five men left Christchurch in a car on Tuesday and headed south. Two of the men are former seamen and three are British. AU are known to have contacts in Australia. Detectives think it possible the men may have been connected with the burglary of a department store in Christchurch last week-end when $2OOO worth of goods was taken. “We do not know for certain that the men are in Australia, or on their way to Australia,” said a C. 1.8. spokesman this evening. “Wo have found no sign of them in New Zealand. A watch is being kept in Australia and New Zealand.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31635, 22 March 1968, Page 1
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346NO TRACE OF ABSCONDERS Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31635, 22 March 1968, Page 1
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