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INNOCENT MAN ARRESTED. LONDON, December 31. Ford M'Carthy, a New York resident, was arrested on a charge of abduction in New York, and was remanded for a week. It was subsequently discovered that it was a case of mistaken identity, and he was released. January 1. Mr M'Carthy is a director of the United States Rubber Corporation and a reputed millionaire. The Airterioan Embassy, acting on information supplied by amateur detectives in New York, had the arrest made in the belief that Mr M'Carthy was a man who had jumped his bail on a charge of abduction.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3016, 3 January 1912, Page 27
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99MISTAKEN IDENTITY Otago Witness, Issue 3016, 3 January 1912, Page 27
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