N.G. Overseer Arrested in Sydney
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N.G. Overseer Arrested
IN SYDNEY G. M. C. FFROST, 24, overseer, was charged at the Central Court, in Sydney, on January 11 with having at Meto Plantation, New Guinea, on October 28, 1936, unlawfully killed Mulmul, a native.
The police said that a wireless message from Rabaul stated that a warrant had been issued for Ffrost’s arrest. Ffrost had been employed by Burns, Philp and Co. in New Guinea, and left by steamer on November 12. He was arrested at his home at Enfield. He -Was a single man, and was well thought of by Burns, Philp and Co., by which firm he was paid off on January 8.
Mr. McMasters, for Ffrost, applied for bail. He said that another party had been convicted of the offence. Therefore, the charge against Ffrost was not so bad