PREFERRED GAOL FOR LIFE.
“I tv 11 stay in gaol all my life before I will register for the draft,” Dominick Kuchan. Austrian alien, defied the Federal Court and refused to register when ordered to do so (says a New York paper). He has been in gaol since October because of his failure to comply with Government conscription regulations. “I will not register,” he announced, “If I did my people over in Austria w r ould kill me when I visited my native land again.” The judge retorted: “When you get back home there won’t be enough of your people left to kill you,” The prisoner was returned to the gaol.
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Taihape Daily Times, 15 April 1918, Page 7
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111PREFERRED GAOL FOR LIFE. Taihape Daily Times, 15 April 1918, Page 7
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