FEDERAL CRIMES ACT
SEQUEL TO RECENT CASE
CLOSING A LOOPHOLE
(Eoceivecl 29tli ISTovomber, 11 a.m.)
CAiS TBEEBA, This Day
Following the unsuccessful pro?eeii< tipn of the publisher, of Melbourne. "Truth," - the . Attorney-Gencrai, Mr* J. G. La'tham, announced that the Govx ernment would introduce an amend« ment to the Crimes Act v wkieh woulcS prevent a defendant who was publishes of a newspaper from pleading, when he( was charged with certain offences, that; he was ignorant of what had been pub* lished in his paper. William Arthur Payne, printer anc| publisher of the newspaper "Truth/*----charged under the Commonwealtli Crimes. Act with having incited mem« beirs of the warships Australia, Can* berra, Albatross, Tattoo, and pthe^, ships to mutiny, was acquitted by thd jury and discharged. He said that he did not write the article in question^ and had no power to stop its publication. This was the first trial of iti kind in Australia.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 130, 29 November 1932, Page 7
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153FEDERAL CRIMES ACT Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 130, 29 November 1932, Page 7
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