SEDITIOUS LIBEL.
LABOURER SENT TO PRISON
PARTICIPATED IN A RIOT. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 11.25 a.m. to-day. ADELAIDE. Dec. 13, Edward Dickinson, a labourer, was sentenced to imprisonment fox; six months and was fined £4O for seditious libel. He Was also sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and fined £IOO for having participated in a riot. The seditions libel was contained in a pamphlet headed “Direct Action.” Tins i,s the first prosecution of the kind in South Australia.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 December 1928, Page 5
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84SEDITIOUS LIBEL. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 December 1928, Page 5
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