ARREST OF OFFICIAL

Evening Star, Issue 19616, 23 July 1927, Page 10

ARREST OF OFFICIAL

COMPLAINT BY WOMEN BRITISHER. IN AMERICA. , SAN FRANCISCO, July 9. William Caldwell, aged thirty-five, an Oxford graduate and former British officer, sailed for Australia to-day, after an unpleasant experience with the Oakland police. Caldwell was arrested late on Fridav night upon the complaint of Mrs Walga Magadan and two sisters, Lillian and Vivian Jones, and imprisoned for five hours until Mr Gerald Campbell, the British Consul, intervened. It was explained that Caldwell had been an employee of the League of Nations Secretariat at Geneva, and that while on his way to Australia, where he had a position in the Prime Minister’s Department a year or so ago, he would represent the Commonwealth at the coming Pacific Relations Conference at Honolulu. Caldwell denied th..t he had accosted the women in any manner calculated .o give offence, but declared mat lie ..ad lost his way at Oakland, and had approached them con., usiy, asking tor directions. t The women gave evidence that he had laid his hand on cue of them. Judge Tyrell fined the accused £lO. Caldwell left, the court just in time to catch the steamer.