GAOL FOR EXTORTION

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 19 May 1925, Page 7

GAOL FOR EXTORTION

HUSH-MONEY CASE

TWO DETECTIVES IJMJEISONED.

(UNITED PAESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT ). MELBOURNE, 18th May. Detectives Olholm and MacPhersou have been sentenced, the- former .to twelvemonths and the latter to nine months imprisonment. They-- intend"; to appeal against the senteucesr:' w- -~-<" '

Detective-Inspector Olhdlm (Bead of the railway detective branch); Detective U bul rvan (second in charge 6t the same branch), and Detectives MacPhereon arid ■bowler were committed for trial on three charges of conspiracy and theft of £1000 and demanding with menaces £6500 from lerrence Callaghan, licensee of the' Londonderry Hotel* Collingwood. The. Crown Prosecutor, in outlining the.case, said it was alleged that during Callaghan s absence from the hotel a man called and left certain articles, for which Miss Callaghim paid £10.' Shortly afterwards the four accused detectives appeared, and on searching the hotel found the articles. They, suggested that 'thegirls father should be seen before she was arrested. The following, morning the goods were carried from th s hotel by O balhvan and .Fowler, and conceded at the lost property office' at the railwaystation During negotiations which- followed O Sullivan is alleged to' have :toWCallaghan that he would get two years', gaoland Ins daughter twelve months-for • receiving stolen goods. After bargain-"! ing, it was arranged ...that-. Cftliagh j>-ff: should pay £6500, and the affair would ■ be hushed up. Callaghan,.. in.^evidences-" said he paid £1000 to O'Sullivari' in'tlie presence of the other accused, aiid-jhsde an arrangement for the payment of the' balance of £6500, but he never completed the payment, as he informed the authorities. After the case first came before tne Court, Fowler disappeared, and U Smllivan became an iuniate. ot ,a receiving home,- under the care of mental specialists. '-•■ ■*'.':<■.".:"...,..,. ..-.„_.-