POLICE IN PALESTINE
THE JAFFA SHOOTING INCIDENT. SENTENCE ON W. WOOD REDUCED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) JERUSALEM, January 26. The Appeal Court reduced William Wood’s sentence to eight months and Crossley's sentence was quashed.
Wood, one of four plain clothes pollcement concerned in an incident at Jaffa, in which an Arab prisoner was shot while attempting to escape, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for manslaughter. Two of the other constables, P. Crossley and J. Crossley, who are not related, were each bound over for a year. A sentence of one year’s imprisonment passed on the fourth constable, J. Mansell, was recently quashed on appeal.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1939, Page 6
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110POLICE IN PALESTINE Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1939, Page 6
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