“PERFECTLY DISGRACEFUL”
SENTENCE ON RUSSIAN WHO FOUGHT FOR ENGLAND JUDGE'S OPINION OF MAGISTRATE “This was a perfectly disgraceful sentence, and I do not want the re cords of this country to contain tn report of the imprisonment of a man like this. I shall quash the sentencand substitute a fine of 10s, and I ca only regret that anybody in country should have seen fit to se this man to prison.” «- Such was the comment of s * r ' Greaves-Lord, Recorder of Mancnter, at Manchester City S essl ?T when Maurice Hulier, a Russian J • appealed against his conviction ana sentence of one month’s hard laD , imposed by the city magistrates failing to register as an alien. Mr. N. Laski said Hulier cam England in 1890 as a boy of 1-- rTj ing the war he served in the Bri - Army, and in 1919 he married i® country a Russian subject. , He was a cabinet-maker by 1 and during the slump of 1922 _f e America. He returned to Eno early this year, working bis on a liner. Immediately he am he notified the authorities. The police said that there & nothing against Hulier. wflio good character. He had supP atr his wife and children during sence in America.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 528, 4 December 1928, Page 14
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207“PERFECTLY DISGRACEFUL” Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 528, 4 December 1928, Page 14
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