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TELEGRAPH WIRES CUT SIX MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT RADIO ANNOUNCER GAOLED <United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyrlg-bt) MELBOURNE, August 5 The radio announcer Harry Solomons, aged 30, was today sentenced to six months' imprisonment for unlawfully cutting telegraph wires used in connection with the broadcasting of races at Ascot Vale last December. Solomons, who absconded from ball, was rearrested at Suva in June. His counsel today claimed that nothing really criminal had been done by Solomons. It was merely an impudent act. Counsel asked the Court to take into consideration the fact that his client had already sufficiently suffered. He said he had been kept in gaol for 29 days in Suva, with one white man and 100 natives, and given poor food. While he was in Auckland on his way back to Australia he had been locked in a cell with a crowd of “Saturday night drunks.” Accused’s sentence was made retrospective to June 12.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21184, 6 August 1940, Page 7
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