Vagrancy Charge Dismissed
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, December 15.
A vagrancy charge against a Polish Jehovah’s Witness was dismissed in a Sydney Court today. This action was taken by the Magistrate (Mr E. Smythe) when Mrs Tadwiga Hopej, of Guildford, an outer suburb, undertook to allow members of her sect to look after her.
On November 29. Mrs Hopej and her husband began a sitdown hunger strike on steps of a suburban courthouse after their 7-year-old son, Stefan, was made a State ward when charged with being a neglected child. His parents had kept the boy away from school for two months because he was made to salute the Australian flag. Earlier the police prosecutor told the Magistrate that Mrs Hopej’s husband was “not fit to come here and plead, and it is understood he is in a certain institution.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 3
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