SIX MONTHS’ GAOL
FORMER RADIO ANNOUNCER SENTENCED. CUTTING TELEGRAPH WIRES. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) MELBOURNE, August 5. The former radio announcer, Hany Solomons, aged 30. was today sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for unlawfully cutting telegraph wires used in connection with the broadcasting oi races at Ascotvalc last December. Solomons, who absconded from bail, was arrested again in Suva in June. His counsel today claimed that nothing really criminal was done by' Solomons. It was merely an impudent act. Counsel asked the Court to take into consideration the fact that Solomons had already sufficiently suflerea. He had been kept in gaol for 29 days in Suva with one white man and 100 natives and was given poor food. While passing through Auckland he had been locked in a cell with a crowd ol Saturday night drunks. Solomon's sentence is retrospective, beginning on June 12,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1940, Page 5
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