FRAUD CHARGES
AUSTRALIANS ARRESTED.
[by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.)
SYDNEY. January 19
John Woolcott Forbes, widely known in commercial and racing circles here, was arrested by the Bombay police in accordance with cabled instructions from the Sydney police when the liner Strathnaver arrived there. He was released on bail pending the hearing of an application for extradition to Sydney. In the meantime at Brisbane Douglass Jowett Bush -was arrested on the charge that he conspired and agreed with Woolcott Forbes and other persons to defraud the Producers and General Finance Corporation and other persons of large sums of money. Bush was remanded.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1939, Page 7
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