The Leader and Orange Stock and Station News, Wed 15 Aug 1917 1
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
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YOUTH IN TROUBLE
A youth, [John Patrick Fitzgerald], 16 years and two months old, of good build and robust appearance, was sentenced to six months imprisonment on Monday, by Mr [Hugh] Malone, PM, for indecency, [obscene exposure]. He was released under and First Offenders’ Act on his own surety of £50, and that of his father for a similar sum. Mr Campbell (McLachlan and Murray) appeared for the accused.
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CIRCUS HORSES BARRED.
The committee of the P and A Association, Gulargambone, last week adopted the prize schedule for its approaching show. It was decided to bar circus horses from competing in the open hunter and pony hunter classes. The rules governing the P and A Association, with slight alterations, were adopted. Finance and work committees were appointed.
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The Executive Council to-day commuted to fifteen years’ imprisonment, the death sentence passed on Frances [aka Francis] Dunin, for the murder of Thomas Roberts at Cassilis.
1 The Leader and Orange Stock and Station News, Wed 15 Aug 1917, p. 2. Emphasis added.