WOMAN ARRESTED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXVI, Issue 26, 29 December 1945, Page 7

WOMAN ARRESTED

STIR IN SYDNEY SOCIETY. SYDNEY, Dec. 22. A woman said by the police to be Mrs Ethel Livesey, aged 48, was arrested in Sydney yesterday. The breakdown of elaborate arrangements for Mrs Livesey’s wedding caused a stir in Sydney society recently.. The woman was arrested on a provisional warrant relating to a 12-year-old charge. She was taken before the Central Police Court, and remanded to appear there on Monday. She was released on bail at 3 p.m. She bad then been four hours in custody. Under the name of Florence Elizabeth Ethel Gardiner she was charged with having failed to appear at Adelaide Criminal Sessions on December 7, 1933, to answer a charge of having obtained goods by false ■■ pretences. The warrant set out that she had been committed to the sessions on this charge from the Adelaide Police Court on November 20, 1933. The woman was arrested at Chester Hill near Lidcombo. Detectives March and Bushby, of the C. 1.8., travelled to Chester Hill by car and the woman returned with them. It is stated that she had been in Melbourne recently, and afterwards spent 11 days in Goulburn before going to Chester Hill. When she was taken into the charge room at the Central Station many curious people gathered near the entrance door.