PROTESTS TO BRITAIN
REMARK BY JUDGE RESENTED United Press Association —By eaectrlr Telegraph—Copvrlc ; LONDON, April 17. Eire has protested to Britain against the remark of Mr Justice Humphreys, who, in sentencing an I.R.A. member on April 3, said: “You were a member of that gang which committed the murders of British officers up to 1922.”
In sentencing Gerald Francis Wharton to ten years’ penal servitude for his part in I.R.A. bomb outrages in London, the judge said that Wharton, who was a member of a gang which murdered British officers and others up to 1922, was the worst and most dangerous of the accused before the Court. He had fought against two Irish Governments and once had vainly tried to tunnel his way out of a prison. He was released in 1924 with a pension from the Irish Government.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21324, 19 April 1939, Page 7
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139PROTESTS TO BRITAIN Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21324, 19 April 1939, Page 7
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