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THREE MEN ACQUITTED JURY'S LONG RETIREMENT (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) SYDNEY, Friday. After a retirement of 22 hours, a jury to-day acquitted two brothers named Littler and a third man, Callaghan, of Parkes, on a charge of having committed a capital offence against a girl. The accused were convicted at their first trial on November 1 and sentenced to death, but their appeal succeeded and a new trial was ordered. A fourth man, McCarroll, was acquitted at the first trial.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 631, 6 April 1929, Page 9
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84SAVED FROM GALLOWS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 631, 6 April 1929, Page 9
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