Miner Used Gelignite To Bring Wife Home
(Received 11 a.m.) ' . . MELBOURNE. This Day. James Robinson Fairbairn, 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, carrying with .him a charge of gilignite, . 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 to the roof, “to let them know that he wanted her .to come home.”' '
Mr Justic Gavin Duffy, in the Criminal Court, sentenced Fairbairns to imprisonment for a year and eight months on a charge of having damaged a dwelling with explosives.
Accused’s action showed that he took no trouble to restrain his passion said the judge. However, he accepted the statement to the Bench that accused meant no harm to the occupants of the house.
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Northern Advocate, 13 May 1939, Page 7
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