A NAVAL SCANDAL.
ARREST OF CRADDOCK.
AIARRIEDTOASYDNEYLADY UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME. A PAINFUL SCENE. Press Assocfatinn.—Electric TeleKTapli.-CopjrUni. Sydney, April 1. Craddook was arrested at the Grand Hotel, Melbourne, where he was staying with hia wife under tho name of Harper. Two hundred and uinety-four sovereigns were found in hia portmanteau, and he informed the detectives where the remainder of the £2400, except about £200 which ho had spent over his marriage and trip, could be found. Ik transpires thntCraddock disappeared on March 25, but the naval authorities kept quiet for several days. .He was married only last Friday. The couple left for Melbourne the same night. The wife is a member of a highly respectable Sydney family. There was a painful scene when she was told that her husband was a naval officer who had been arrested for desertion, and that his name was not Harper. Melbourne, April 1. Detectives Dalton and Wilson divide the £50 offered for the arresb of AssistantPaymaster Craddock, of the warship Katoomba, charged with misappropriating the funds of the navy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10406, 2 April 1897, Page 5
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175A NAVAL SCANDAL. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10406, 2 April 1897, Page 5
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