STUPID WOMEN
KISS CONVICTED PRISONERS A number of women, who joined in hysterical outcry when George Dempsey, 36, and John Edward Mclvor, 39. were sentenced at Quarter Sessions, Sydney, kissed t lie prisoners as police led them from the court. Dempsev was sentenced to three years and recommitted as an habitual criminal, ami Miclvor was sentenced to three years and declared an habitual criminal. Both prisoners had a long record of previous convictions, dating back to 1918. The charge of which they were convicted was of having broken into t\je home of John Valentine McKuiness. Gardiner's Road, Mascot, on July 13 and stolen £150 worth of property, including a revolver and 30 cartridges. After the jury had given its verdict. Dempsey and Mclvor protested their innocence. "I am a victim if circumstances," said Dempsey, who added that the weight of evidence justified an acquittal. Judge Sluddert, after describing the records of tnc prisoners as "deplorable," said that the jury's verdict was abundantly justified by the evidence. • j
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 285, 19 March 1941, Page 2
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167STUPID WOMEN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 285, 19 March 1941, Page 2
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