Wild Bendigo Husband
POUND MEAL NOT PREPARED WENT TO SEEK WIPE WITH STICK OF GELIGNITE United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Saturday, 12.10 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 12. James Robinson Fairbairn, aged 42, a Bendigo miner, was annoyed when he came home on March 16 and found no food ready for him. He went seeking 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 Cavan Duffy in the Criminal Court sentenced Fairbairn to imprisonment for a year and eight months on a charge of having damaged a dwelling with explosives. Fairbairn’s action showed he took no trouble to restrain his passions. He said, however, that he accepted the statement that he meant no harm to the occupants of the house.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 5
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