ARRESTED AFTER 12 YEARS
“Tiiourmr moths had kathn WARRANT.” On Melbourne? Cup Day, P)O7. a. ni:in c barged with having .attempted to pick the pockets of members of a picnic party at South Morang. He was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment, against which conviction an appeal was lodged. Pending the rehearing of the case the defendant absconded from hail, and nothing further was hoard of him until recently. The police proceeded down Port Phillip Bay in a. motor launch, and intercepted a steamer which was coming from Western Australia. In one of the hunks they toiind i man answering the description of Kd ward It van ami arrested him.
J( s still luck, he said, resignedly. In the west I had hooked c passage to Africa on the (Jstcriey, ami was actually on hoard, when I changed my mind. It's bad luck to turn hack always’; hut T really thought that the moths had eaten Unit warrant. I was going to lie low on hoard and slip away at Sydney." Later in the day Edward Ryan. 40 years of age, was admitted, to the Melbourne Gaol, and commenced to serve a sentence of 12 months’ imprisonment.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2646, 27 October 1919, Page 2
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