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(.Eeeeived 27th November, 10.a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day. Eric Pike, aged 15, to-day pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of John Smith, and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour, with subsequent detention in a reformatory. The charge was originally one of murder. The Judge, in passing sentence, said: "Your youth saves you from the hanging you so well deserve."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1929, Page 11
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64SAVED FROM THE GALLOWS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1929, Page 11
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