CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS
RECORDS OF WAR DEAD ERASURE URGED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 6. (Received January 7, at 9.25 a.m.) The grand jury at Birmingham carried a resolution expressing the opinion that convictions recorded against soldiers and sailors killed in the Great War should be erased. The recorder (Sir Henry Haddocks) said that the idea appealed to him as common justice. it might also be urged that living ex-servicemen should receive similar treatment. A free pardon did not remove the record, which needed an Act of Parliament.—Sydney ‘Sun’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19758, 7 January 1928, Page 6
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89CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS Evening Star, Issue 19758, 7 January 1928, Page 6
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