CONSPIRACY SUSPECTED
MAN’S FINGER CUT OFF. SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 10 p.m. Sydney, Aug. 17. Stating that the prisoner appeared to be the ringleader in a conspiracy, Judge White to-day sentenced a butcher, Walter Bruce Thompson, aged 35, to three months’ hard labour on a charge of fflse pretences. The judge said Thompson had permitted a man to tout off the tops of his fingers so that he could share in the compensation.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1934, Page 7
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