DE GARIS CASE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 January 1925, Page 5

DE GARIS CASE

QUESTION OF BAIL

ACCUSED AGAIN DEMANDED

ESCORT FROM MELBOURNE.

(BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 22.

C. J. De Garis, the Australian financier, who was arrested at Auckland last week, appeared on remand at the Police Court to-day. Chief Detective Cummings asked for a further remand for one week. Prisoner’s counsel (Mr Moody) said that no word had been received from the Victorian police as to whether an escort had left for New Zealand. De Garis had already been nine days in custody, and there had been ample time for the Victorian police to say what they intended doing. He asked for bail;' also, if granted, that it be reasonable. . Counsel repeated the offer that the prisoner was prepared to return by the first boat, paving his own expenses. Detective Cummings objected to bail. De Garis had left Australia under a false name, and when arrested denied his identity. Also, some of the circumstances suggested a tendency to suicide. Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., did not think that bail should be granted. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. MELBOURNE, Jan. 22. Senior Detective Davey sails from Sydney to-morrow for New Zealand to escort'De Garis back to Melbourne.