HEAVILY PUNISHED
UNITED STATES SEAMEN WHO “WENT BUSH.” AFTER ROBBING TAXI-DRIVER IN AUSTRALIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) PERTH, July 21. Two American saliors who “went bush” after robbing a taxi-driver last May and whose escapades caused one of the biggest manhunts in Western Australian history, have been sentenced to 15 and nine years' imprisonment respectively by a United States courtmartial. The youth of the men. each of whom is 19, led to a reduction of the original sentences of 25 and 15 year*. They will serve their sentences in an American naval prison and will then get a dishonourable discharge from the service. This will deny them all the rights of citizenship.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1943, Page 3
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111HEAVILY PUNISHED Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1943, Page 3
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