35 YEARS’ GOAL
FOR P.O. ROBBERY AT SYDNEY.
\ Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY, December 16,
Grierson was sentenced to thirty-five' years’ (imprisonment for blinding Johnson, and to ten years’ for assaulting and robbing Seckold, tlic terms to he concurrent. Judge Thomson regretted there was no power to impose a flogging. JOHNSON’S PENSION FOR LIFE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, December 17. The Federal Ministry announced that •it is paying £IOOO compensation to Mr Johnson also a life pension of £5 lCd a week in addition to all medical expenses associated with his blindness. The Postmaster-General e.-pres-ed his cf eo nest sympathy. The Government said that Johnson's case excited the pjty of the whole Commonwealth.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1932, Page 5
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