PANAMA WANTS TO TRY A NEW ZEALANDER ON GUN RUNNING CHARGES
SAN JOSE (Cost Rica), May 4 (Rec. 7.30 p.m.)—The Panamanian Government is pressing for extradition to Panama of a New Zealander and an American on charges of complicity in a revolutionary plot against the Government of Panama. The men are: Maurice Keith Berry, aged 22, of New Zealand, and Hollis O’Hanlon, who was born in Canada but now is a naturalised American citizen. The Panamanian Justice Department has charged that botli men landed arms from Costa Rica on the coast of Panama on April 17. Berry ana O’Hanlon have denied the charges. On the representations of the Panamanian Government and O'Hanlon were taken into the custody of the Costa Rican police last week, but were released for lack of evidence. Panama now demands that the men be arrested and held under the Bustamente Act, which allows detention for 60 days pending submission of evidence in support of an application for extradition. The Costa Rican police have issued a warrant for the arrest of Berry and O'Hanlon, but the chief of detectives told Reuter that the men were hiaing.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 6 May 1949, Page 5
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