CONSPIRACY ALLEGRO.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 May 1925, Page 7

CONSPIRACY ALLEGRO.

TWO DETECTIVES CHARGED

BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

MELBOURNE, May 13. The trial of Detectives Oldham and MacPherson oil charges of conspiring, together with Detectives O’Sullivan and Fowler, to obtain money from Terence Callaghan, licensee of the Londonderry Hotel, Collingwood, is proceeding. Since the-case was previously before the court Fowler has disappeared and O’Sullivan has become the inmate of a receiving home and is under the care of mental speciahsts. The defence is a complete denial of the charge. Counsel for MacPherson claimed that never was such a cock and bull storv told before a court.

The- four detectives, after a departmental inquiry, were charged on three charges of conspiracy, of the theft of £IOOO, and of demanding with menaces £6500 from Terence Callaghan, licensee of the Londonderry Hotel, Collingwood. The Crown Prosecutor, in outlining the ease, said it was alleged that during Callaghan’s absence from the hotel a man called, and left certain articles, lor which Miss CaFnghan paid £lO. Shortly afterwards the. four accused detectives appeared, and on searching the hotel thev found the articles. They suggested that the girl’s father should lie seen before she was arrested. The following morning the goods were curried from the hotel by Detectives 'O’Sul ivan and Fowler and concealed at the lost property office -at the railway station. During the negotiations which followed. O’Sullivan is allaged to have told Cal'aghnn that he (Callaghan) would -.vet two years in gaol and his daughter twelve months for receiving stolen goods. After bargaining, it was arranged that Callaghan should pay •CCnO'l sterling, and the affair would he “hushed up.”