PLEA FOR GAOLED GIRL
LONDON, Nov. 1. Mr. P. C. Loftus (Cons., Lowestoft) will ask the Home Secretary in Parliament if he will take into consideration the youth of the girl, aged 19, who was fined £1 and gaoled a month for using a torch during black-out hours, with a view to recommending a reduction in sentence. The girl, Gladys Wallace, of Wisbech, was fined £1 for using indecent language and sentenced to a month's imprisonment for flashing a torch.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20114, 7 December 1939, Page 16
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80PLEA FOR GAOLED GIRL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20114, 7 December 1939, Page 16
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