ATTEMPTED ARSON
INTERNEE GIVEN THREE YEARS ‘HARD” HP.A.i Wellington, May 19. A sentence of three years’ hard (.labour was imposed by the Chief Justice, Sir Micnael Myers, on John ; Charles Klingenstein, aged 31, chairmaker. who pleaded guilty in the ■Magistrate’s Court to attempting to .set fire to a bulk shed on Somes (Island, where he was interned. ’Prisoner was New Zealand born. • Sir Michael Myers said that al- | though Klingenstein once professed [Sympathy with Nazi ideals he now claimed to be a Communist and said ! he could not get on with the Nazis on Somes Island. It was a somewhat (difficult case, but it was quite plain : prisoner must be sentenced to a subistantial term of imprisonment. He told prisoner he could not be regarded las a political prisoner. He had (pleaded guilty to a very serious breach lof the criminal law. He must remain I detained somewhere and in the full icontrol of the authorities, and if not isent to prison would have to go back ; to some place of detention.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 116, 20 May 1942, Page 3
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172ATTEMPTED ARSON Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 116, 20 May 1942, Page 3
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