VILLAGE SENTENCED
PRISON PROYES TOO SMALL. Practically the entire population of the village of Hidveg, in Slovakia, was recently condemned to three days' imprisonment. Some time ago an airplane came down in the village of Dregley, Palanka, just across the Hungarian frontier, and 282 of the 300 inhabitants of Hidveg, who are Hungarians by race, believing that it was the machine of the famous Hungarian pilot Endresz, hastened across the border regardless of the efforts of the Czech frontier guard to prevent them. On their return all were stopped. For the offence of crossing the frontier without a permit they were sentenced to fines of 50 Czech crowns or three days in gaol. As the local gaol was too small, they had to serve their sentences in Turnussen prison in batches of 30 at a time.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 281, 22 July 1932, Page 8
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136VILLAGE SENTENCED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 281, 22 July 1932, Page 8
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