ABSCONDED FROM BAIL.
SENTENCE IN AIELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, Aug. o. The former radio announcer,'Harry Solomons,’ aged 30, was to-day sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for unlawfully cutting telegraph wires used in connection with the broadcasting of races at Ascotvale last December. Solomons, who asconded from bail, was arrested again in Suva in June. His counsel to-day claimed that nothing really criminal was done by Solomons. It was merely an impudent act. Counsel asked tbc Court to take into consideration the fact that Solomons bad already sufficiently suffered. He liad been kept in.gaol for 29 days in Suva with one white man and 100 natives, and was given poor food. While passing through Auckland he had been locked in a cell with a crowd of Saturday night “drunks.” Solomons’ sentence is retrospective, beginning on June 12.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 212, 6 August 1940, Page 7
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134ABSCONDED FROM BAIL. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 212, 6 August 1940, Page 7
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