INNOCENT MAN SENT TO GAOL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 22 July 1921, Page 6

INNOCENT MAN SENT TO GAOL

REMARKABLE .SYDNEY CASE SYDNEY, July 12. Early in June a good-looking, thickset. young man named Hoy Frost was convicted of liaving stolen £346 liom the residence oi 11 eg. Cal (on, a. wellknown bookmaker, lie vigorously pi" tested °]iis innocence, and set, up an alibi, but (be jury convicted, and be was sent to Long Hay for eighteen months. He bad been keeping bad company, and bis identification as Hm thief seemed complete. Miss Young, a- sister in-lavv oi Mr Catton, was alone in the latter a house on the evening of 30th Apiil last.. Sim was suddenly accosted by two men, who covered with whit a. revolver, while the other went straight (o the fireplace, and, Irom a receptacle m the lank, be took £346 m notes. This was where the bookmaker kept bis “bag” when be was unable to get, into the city to lock it up. The two men then rushed from the house and into a motor-car, Hm engine of which was running, and they <r ot clear ;uvnv. Hatton ottered ward of £loo'for the detection of Hie culprits. Frost was arrested, and was positively identified by Miss Young as omi of the isvo men. Sim also identified another man as bis companion--but, as ])o turned out to be a well-known Kensington who had act oil as master of ceremonies at a. dance, during the whole of the evening n ouestion. he was not convicted. "Then came the. curious sequel. .Host bod been a couple of weeks m E; l °l when a short, dark man, resembling him in appearance, went to a siiwiriu. police station, and told the po me that he was the. man who sto e l m monev. The police mused to w him ‘ Rut he persisted. He det.uica ; tho events of .the night, and he gave the police the name and address ol hm mate, and of the chauffeur who is “in on his job-” The little man was confronted with Mr Catton and Young. They, also, did not want to believe him; but he seemed to know so much about the matter, anc m contradicted Miss Young so ■ H , regard to certain details oi the m o l 1 * happening —ami in which be torced bei fo adapt she was wrong—Hiai he <■ Sneed the police. The Hirec. men were taken ado custody. .. The little man (old Mu-.-’ ■■ - she was wrong when -md n burglars showed their laces. M ■ Ta os, he declared, wore vvmpped m khaki handkerchiefs and mnlilcr., am were never uncovered. Mms loin.-, . i . .. lini,. stuikv on the. then became a Hit It. ■ j noint. The little man unhealed Him he could not. hear Hie ot an innocent man suitoring lor their ]f no one had been convicted, neiHim ho nor his mates womu have, eon--I’CSSC(I. I , ,! nn Ivlil Frost was thereupon released on ~.i , pending an appeal against ms emu w tinn. There was a pallwi.., muk when his mother learned oi .no nm, development. She had been cei mn m Ida innoeonee, and hml >u u him every day