CRIME RAMPANT
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UNSOLVED MYSTERIES. ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION. PRISONER’S REVELATIONS. BY CABLE—PB.ES3 ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Oct. 28, 2.30 p.m. MELBOURNE, Oct. 28. In the last four years approximately 51,623 crimes were reported to the Criminal Investigation Department at Melbourne, of which 41,720 were undetected. The most serious was the murder of Irene Tuckerman at Caulfield. Allegations of corruption and of a system of delivery charges by gaol officials for prisoners, of secret' letters from a high school of criminal technology to friends outside are contained in a letter from a prisoner in the new Melbourne gaol. The prisoner is ex-Lieutenant-Colonel Thom, who was recently found guilty of the misappropriation of the funds of the special constabulary, whereof he was commander. i( To the Crown Prosecutor Thom says: ‘ I. have been instructed in all modern methods of burglary, safe-blowing, coining, forgery, and note-faking. I know two methods of opening regulation handcuffs silently with a stout bootlace in two minutes.”
Detectives have been deputed to investigate an extensive scheme of smuggling into Pentridge.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 October 1924, Page 7
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171CRIME RAMPANT Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 October 1924, Page 7
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