DEATH SENTENCES ON YOUNG MEN
Six Guilty of Assault on Woman RELATIVES COLLAPSE IN SYDNEY COURT By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received Marcli 18,. 10 p.m.) Sydney,'March 17. In the Criminal Court to-day six young men. whose ages ranged from 10 lo 20, were found guilty of a capital assault on a young Italian woman in Parramatta Park on the night of January S. Mr. Justice Stephen sentenced the .six to death, and a seventh, aged 15, was convicted of indecent assault and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. When the jury’s decision was an-, nounced a number of women relatives screamed and created an unprecedented scene. Five of them collapsed on the floor of the court and were removed in an ambulance. . The defence by all the youths was that the woman, who was unable to speak a word of English, was a consenting party.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 149, 19 March 1936, Page 9
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