IRATE MINER'S ACT
HOUSE DAMAGED WITH
GELIGNITE
(Received May 13, 9 a.m.)
MELEpURNE, May 12,
James Robinson Fairbairn, aged 42, a Bendigo miner, was annoyed when he came home on March 16 and found that no food was ready for him, and he went in search of his wife with a charge of gelignite, according to a statement he is alleged to have made to the police. Reaching the home of a neighbour where his wife was, he threw a lighted charge on the roof "To let them know that he wanted her to come home." Mr. Justice Gavan Duffy, in the Criminal Court, sentenced Fairbairn to imprisonment for a year and eight S months on a charge of having damaged i a dwelling with explosives. Fairbairn's action, he said, showed that he took no trouble to restrain his passions. The Judge said, however, that he accepted the statement that Fairbairn meant no harm to the occupants of the house.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 9
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160IRATE MINER'S ACT Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 9
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