COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 63, 17 March 1915, Page 8

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

TWO YEARS FOR MANSLAUGHTER. United Peebb Association. Perth, .March 10. The charge against Eatt’was reduced to manslaughter. He was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, without hard labor, the judge remarking that he had suffered from hereditary mental weakness and liquor, and imprisonment would enable him to he treated.

EARLE HERMANN’S DELUSIONS. Sydney, March 10. In the Earle Hermann case, Hermann made a lengthy statement. Eleven years ago, he said, he was sand-bagged at Capetown, and later he was kicked on the head by a horn?. He had since suffered from recurrent fits, which were very frequent last year. When the attacks were vanning on he felt that nothing was too big to undertake, and nothing mattered ; while after his fits his memory was blotted out. After hearing the evidence against him he had been hor-ror-stricken to find that lie had committed acts of which he was unaware. He had no more knowledge of dsconnting these hills than the members of the jury. Hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth ‘of hills passed through his hands, and often m the rush of business he signed them without examining. He had no need of money. If lie were responsible for the hi lls as alleged, it was the act of a maniac. Everything had gone. It was a horrible stain and disgrace, and most extraordinary; yet noi so extraordinary when one considered the effect of these fits. He had wanted to make money, and he could have cleared out, for there was plenty of opportunity, Mrs Hermann and a number of doctors deposed to Hermann’s delusions under epileptic seizures.

WINERS’ STOP-WORK MEETING. Sydney, March 16. A stop-work meeting of South Coast miners passed a resolution deprecating putting wheelers in gaol lor absenting themselves from work for a day. emphatically disapproving of Judge Heydon’s attitude in the suspension oi the beneficial clauses of the Arbitration Act, and demanding that the Government should amend the law to prevent a recurrence of this penalising and gaoling of members.