DARLINGHURST OUTRAGE.
PRESS EXCLUDED FROM HEARING. (BT CABLS —PRBSS ASSOCIATION —COPT RIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLS ASSOCIATION.) (Received March 23rd, 11.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 23.
The five men, Herbert Wilson, Frederick Payne, Phillip Jeffs, Ernest Wilson, and. Leslie Heath, charged with the Darlington outrage, were committed for trial on capital charges after a Police Court hearing in camera. The Magistrate's action in excluding the Press is universally ' condemned, many leading barristers expressing the opinion that the- Magistrate -vyas seriously mistaken in conducting such a case behind closed doors.
[While walking home late at night on March 6th, a married woman was seized by two men at Darlinghurst and dragged into an adjacent building containing flats, where she was criminally assaulted by seven men. She later informed the police, and five arrests were made.]
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19268, 24 March 1928, Page 15
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133DARLINGHURST OUTRAGE. Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19268, 24 March 1928, Page 15
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