MEN SENTENCED
ASSAULTING OF PASTOR Received Feb. 5, 5.5 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 4. Allan Reynolds, aged 19, and James Wilkinson, aged 25, labourers, who pleaded guilty at Newcastle to having assaulted Pastor Anderson and having robbed him of his motor-car, a suitcase, and £l, were sentenced to three years’ and two years’ imprisonment respectively. Three young men who were given a lift in a car travelling to Newcastle on December 14 attacked the driver, a Seventh Day Adventist, Pastoi Thomas Anderson, took control of his car, bound, gagged, and robbed him, and threw him into a bush. They drove off in the direction of Newcastle. Pastor Anderson eventually freed himself and informed the police at Wyong. Three men were arrested on tHe outskirts of Newcastle after a shot had been fired at them.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 30, 6 February 1939, Page 7
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133MEN SENTENCED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 30, 6 February 1939, Page 7
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