WHITEWASH.
CRIMINALS AND THE WAR. (Received Saturday, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. The Grand Jury at Birmingham carried a resolution expressing the opinion that convictions recorded against soldiers and sailors killed in the great war should be erased.The Recorder, Sir Henry Maddoeks, said that while the idea appealed to him as common justice, it might also be urged that living ex-servicemen should receive similar treatment. A free pardon did not remove the record, which needed an Act of Parliament.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 January 1928, Page 5
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