A SENSATIONAL CHASE
MAN-HUNT TO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AN AUSTRALIAN RECORD. (Per United Press Association). WELLINGTON, December 15. The departure of the Tahiti for Sydnej yesterday, marked the beginning of the final chapter in the story of the longest chase in Australian criminal annals. About eight months ago the secretary of a large concern in New South Wales disappeared. No trace could be found of him or of a large sum of money. After ransacking Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania, Detective-Sergeant Edwards, of the New South Wales Criminal Investigation Department, received information which led him to visit the United States, and following up a clue obtained in Pittsburg, he went to Washington, where the wanted man was run to earth. His name is William Benjamin. He is a married man, aged 54 years. Benjamin was extradited from America on a charge of forgery, uttering and larceny as a clerk, the amounts involved aggregating £5OOO. Detective Edwards travelled over 7000 miles through the United States during the man-hunt.
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Southland Times, Issue 19124, 17 December 1923, Page 6
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168A SENSATIONAL CHASE Southland Times, Issue 19124, 17 December 1923, Page 6
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