WIFE’S FUNERAL
PRISONER GIVEN PAROLE. SYDNEY, Nov. 22. The humane action of the gaol authorities in allowing a prisoner out on parole to attend his wife’s funeral was disclosed by Mr. Maddocks Cohen at the Darlinghurst Sessions.. He asked for leniency on behalf of Walter James Simpson, 34, poulterer’s labourer, who, it was said, was invalided out of the A.I.F. because of shell shock and gas poisoning. Simpson had been found guilty* of shop-breaking', 'while his companion in the dock, Kathleen Tremholme, aged 28, was found guilty of receiving. In passing sentence of 12 months’ imprisonment on Simpson, Judge Beeby said that he would not deal leniently with shop-breakers. As the woman was not so much to blame he would give her another chance. She was bound over to appear for sentence if called upon at any time within 12 months.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1923, Page 3
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141WIFE’S FUNERAL Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1923, Page 3
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