Depositions for James Wallace 28 April 1928 Dubbo trial 1
Commonwealth of Australia – Post Master General’s Department.
Received Telegrams.
27th March 1928
Prison Department, Sydney
James Wallace received 26th for trial Dubbo Supreme Court April 26 indecently assault male person committed Canowindra Court Scobie Magistrate 21st instant.
[Signed] Gaoler Bathurst.
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NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE.
Western District,
Canowindra Station.
1st April 1928.
Report relevant to Antecedents of:–
Name: James Wallace (62)
Offence: Indecent assault on male person (13 years of age) two charges cases taken in one set of depositions.
Committed for Trial at: Dubbo Supreme Court sittings.
Date: 26.4.1928.
I beg to report that the above named offender, who is a stranger to the district, arrived at Canowindra about four or five weeks ago, and camped on a reserve about two miles out of Canowindra and came into the town occasionally for food, and during one of his visits made the acquaintance of a lad named Frank Fisher, thirteen years of age, and after speaking with him on the street, enticed him away to the river, where the first alleged offence was committed. He met the lad on another occasion, and endeavoured to entice him to the river, the lad refused, offender then proceeded to where the lad lived about three miles out of Canowindra, and enticed the lad away off the road, where the second offence was committed. Offender stated he was born at Bringelly near Liverpool, but left there when very young, and that he has roamed New South Wales and Queensland, but was not inclined to give his movements, other than that he worked on Jemalong Station twenty miles out of Forbes for about three months, and that he came from Forbes to Canowindra. Offender was carrying a swag. Enquiries have been made, and it has been ascertained that he worked on Jemalong Station for a Mr McColm for about three months, and left that employ about February last, and that during the time he was employed at Jemalong Station, he was very unreliable and done his work in a very unsatisfactory manner. Nothing further is known about him. His finger prints were taken and forwarded to Sydney, and returned with remarks “Prints unknown.” Offender alleged he was sixty two years of age, and a single man.
[Signed] GA Morgan, Sergeant 2nd Class.
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Petty Sessions Office, Canowindra 23rd March1928. |
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(a) Name in full of accused. |
Rex v. (a) James Wallace |
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(b) Offence. |
(b) Indecent assault on a male person |
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(c) “Supreme Court,” or “Quarter Sessions.” |
Depositions and the other Documents in the case of the above named accused who has been committed to take his trial at the (c) Supreme Court to be held at at Dubbo the 26th day of April 1928 are forwarded under separate cover |
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(d) “Is confined in the Gaol at …,” or “has been admitted to bail” (with full particulars as to sureties, addresses, occupations, and amounts, as set out in Recognisance.) |
The accused is (d) confined in the Gaol at Bathurst |
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(e) As in Recognizance, both for Crown and defence, specifying also what witnesses gave evidence but were not bound over, with reason for omission. |
The Witnesses bound over are (e) George Arthur Morgan, Sergeant of Police, Canowindra, Harold James Slattery, labourer Canowindra and John Henry Fisher, labourer, Canowindra on behalf of Frank Fisher, his son aged 13 years. |
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(f) Short description to enable identification. |
The Exhibits enclosed are (f) Nil |
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[Signed] ------ |
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The Under Secretary of Justice. |
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N.B.– When a Police Constable acts as Clerk of Petty Sessions, this letter should be signed by one of the Committing Magistrates April, 1920 |
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Police Station, Canowindra
7th March 1928.
James Wallace states, I desire to make a voluntary statement to Sergeant 2nd Class Morgan. I have been warned by Sergeant Morgan that I need not make a statement unless I so desire, and anything that I choose to say will be taken down in writing and may be used in evidence against me. I met that boy between the Post Office and the top of the street in Canowindra on Friday last the 2nd instant, and he said the flood was up and they were all swimming down at the bottom of the lane, I said “can you swim?”, and he said “No”, and I said “You ought to learn.” I gave him 6/ in the street and he went into a fruit shop, and then we went down to the river to where they were swimming. There was no shade there so we walked along the creek, and he said to me, “I can do it.” I said “WHAT!?”, and he said “Make the white stuff come.” I said “Who told showed you how to do that?” He said “I found out myself,” and he made himself come in front of me. Of course I was shyacking him, and I said to him as we were walking back that he should not do that too often, as it was bad for him. That is the only time I ever seen his penus [sic] for or since. I might have had hold of his penus when he was with me, and I remember telling him I was a good mind to bite it off him. I now ask the Sergeant if he would like to ask me any questions I will be glad to answer them bearing on the case. This is at my own suggestion, and I have not been influenced in any way to make a statement by the Sergeant, I may also say I’m nearly sixty three years of age and have never had a case against me before. Question asked by Sergeant Morgan. The boy alleges that you had his penus in your mouth, is that true? I may have grabbed at his penus, and I may have put my penus in the boy’s hand. That was on Friday the second instant. The boy had his trousers unbuttoned. I did not interfere with the boy in any other way. I saw the boy on Monday last at Moorbel, we walked off the road, I was cutting across I thought on to another road, the boy said there was no road that way, and I cut across a cultivation paddock on to a road I left, the road I thought was on was further this way. I had a jerry riddle under a pepper tree, I don’t remember putting my penus into his hand, I was a bit full, I gave the boy two shillings, he asked me for two shillings to go to the pictures, I was a bit dubious about giving it to him, but I did so, it was four sixpences, the reason I gave him 2/. was because he asked me for it. I said “So long, I’ll see you down town tomorrow at eleven o’clock.” He replied “I’ll be down town at eleven o’clock.” The only time I seen his penus was on the Friday at the river. I never saw a man watching me at Moorbel, when I was with the boy. This statement has been read over to me and is correct.
Witness:– [Signed] GA Morgan, Sergeant 2nd Class
[Signed] J Wallace.
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Depositions of Witnesses.
New South Wales, Canowindra
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The examination of George Arthur Morgan, Sergeant of Police at Canowindra in the State of New South Wales, Harold James Slattery, labourer of Canowindra and Frank Fisher, school boy of Canowindra in the said State, taken on oath this 21st day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty eight at the Canowindra Police Office, in the said State, before the undersigned, one of His Majesty’s Police Magistrates and Justices of the Peace in and for the said State, in the presence and hearing of James Wallace who was charged this day before me for that he the said James Wallace on the 2nd day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty eight at Canowindra in the said State, did indecently assault Frank Fisher a male person.
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This Deponent sworn states:– My name is George Arthur Morgan. I am a Sergeant of Police stationed at Canowindra. On Monday the 5th instant about 6 pm a complaint was made to me. In consequence of that I proceeded to Morebel on the morning of the 6th instant accompanied by Constable O’Brien.
I interviewed a man named James Slattery and a boy named Frank Fisher and in consequence of what they told me I made search for the defendant.
At about 5 pm that afternoon I saw the accused on a reserve about two miles from Canowindra. He was in the company of another man. I said to him “Were you in Canowindra this morning?” He said “Yes.” I said “Were you in Canowindra this afternoon?” He replied “Yes.” I said “You answer the description of a man I’m looking for. I want you to come to Canowindra with me in the car and if you are not the person I think you are I shall bring you back to your camp.” Accused said “All right.” I brought him to the Police Station and a few minutes afterwards a lad named Frank Fisher was brought to the station by Constable O’Brien. I said to the accused “Have you seen this boy before?” He said “Yes. Hello son. I gave you two shillings yesterday didn’t I to go to the pictures?”
I said to Fisher “Have you seen this man before?” He said “Yes. That is the man I was telling you about.” I then said to the accused “I am going to ask you some questions and I tell you that you need not answer unless you so desire but anything you do say may be given in evidence against you.” I said “There has been a serious complaint made against you that on last Friday the 2nd instant, you met this boy at the Post Office, Canowindra, and you invited him to go down to the river with you,
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that you took him under the railway bridge, that you undid his trousers, took his penis out and sucked the boy’s penis and that you then took your own penis out and put it into the boy’s hand and told him to hold it tight and rub it, and that you then gave him sixpence and told him to tell no-one. Is that true or not?” Accused replied “Oh No. That is not true.” I said “There is also a complaint that you met this boy at Morebel yesterday afternoon and took him up under a big pepper tree off the side of the road, and that you again took you [sic] penis out and put it in the boy’s hand and told him to hold it tight and rub it and that you then gave him two shillings in four sixpenny pieces and asked him to meet you today at eleven o’clock at the Post Office Canowindra. Is that true?” Accused said “I don’t think so. I might have had a piddle in front of the boy but I was pretty full but I don’t think I did what he said I did.”
I said to Fisher in front of accused “Did you meet this man last Friday at the Post Office?” He said “Yes.” I said “Did you go away with him anywhere?” He said “We went to the river underneath the railway bridge. He took my tommy out and sucked it and put his tommy into my hand and asked me to rub it and there was some white stuff came out of it and he gave me sixpence.”
I said “Did you see him yesterday?” He said “Yes. I saw him at Morebel.” I said “Did you go anywhere with him?” He said “Yes. We went up underneath a pepper tree at the back of Jim Slattery’s.” I said “Did he do anything?” He said “Yes. He put his tommy into my hand and told me to rub it and he gave me two shillings.”
Accused said “Didn’t I give you the two shillings to go to the pictures?” The boy said “Yes.” Accused said “Weren’t you showing me a near cut across the paddock?”
I don’t remember the boy answering that question. I said to accused “You hear what this boy says? Is it true
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or not?” Accused said “I might have been fooling about a bit with him down at the river but I don’t remember doing what he said I did.”
I then arrested the accused and charged him as he now stands charged. He replied “This is rather a serious matter to me.” Next morning in the yard of the lock up accused said to me “I would like to tell you all about this Sergeant if you don’t mind.” I said “Do you wish to make a statement?” He replied “Yes.” I said “It is my duty to warn you that you are not obliged to make any statement but anything you say will be taken down in writing and will be used in evidence against you.” I said “You quite understand it is not at my request and your statement will be voluntary.” Accused said “Yes. I understand that.” In the Police Office I typed down a statement that accused gave me. I read it over to him.
Accused voluntarily interposes: That “the boy told me that he had done it before what is stated there.”
Accused signed the statement in my presence,
By Accused: No questions.
(Read over and adhered to … WEH)
[Signed] GA Morgan.
Taken and sworn at the Police Court, Canowindra this 21st day of March 1928 before.
[Signed] J[ohn] B[oyd] Scobie, PM.
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This Deponent sworn states:– My name is Frank Fisher. I am thirteen years of age and reside with my parents at Morebel.
I have seen the accused before.
I remember Monday the 27th last. I saw the accused that day. I saw him at the Post Office, Canowindra. He said “G’day,” and asked me my name and where I lived. He told me to come for a walk. I did not go with him. I remember Friday the 2nd March. I saw the accused at the Canowindra Post Office that day. He asked me to come for a walk with him. He said to come down by the river and under the railway line bridge.
He did not there tell me what he wanted me for. We walked down the river and under the railway bridge. When I went down the river accused undid my trousers and took out my tommy and he was rubbing it back and then he told me to get hold of his real tight and rub it up and down for a while.
I did that and white stuff came out of it.
Accused put my tommy in his mouth for about ten minutes. He kissed me and told me to get my mouth full of spit and then put it on his lip. I did.
Then we walked out and up Finn’s lane again.
Accused gave me a shilling. He asked me to meet him again on the Saturday or Sunday.
I did not see accused on Saturday or Sunday. I saw him when I went to get the mail on Monday. He wanted me to go down to the river again with him then. I said I was in a hurry to go home. He wanted me to go up the back of the hotel yard. I did not go with him. That afternoon accused came to Belmore and spoke to me near Sullivan’s which is not far from my father’s house. Down below our house there a [sic] lot of green alloes [sic] growing.
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Accused asked me to go down behind the alloes.
I did not go down behind the alloes.
I saw accused again later in the evening at Edward Slattery’s.
He asked me to go up on the hill with him. I went up behind Jim Slattery’s with accused, beind [sic–behind] a big pepper tree. Accused wanted to play with my tommy again. I would not let him. He told me to get hold of his. He put it in my hand and told me to rub it up and down and white stuff came away from it. Accused gave me two shillings. He did not. He told me to meet him next morning at 11 o’clock at the hotel. He said he was stopping at the hotel near the Post Office.
Accused said not to tell anybody. Accused said “Don’t tell anybody. You and I will be good pals.”
Under the pepper tree was in sight of the main road. When accused left me on that occasion he went through the paddock on to the main road.
I was not showing him a new but across the paddock.
There was no mention of it.
At the river on the Friday I did not say to accused “I can make the white stuff come.” I did not play with his tommy.
The Sergeant was the first one I told of the matter. I told Jim Slattery something.
By Accused: I told you that the river was up again. You gave me sixpence to get a drink before we went down. I said we could see the boys swimming. I did not know they were swimming until I saw them. I said I like to see them diving. The river was muddy on account of the previous flood. We came to a dry place under the railway bridge. I did not say “I can make the white stuff come.” I did not say that I had already made it come that day.
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I did not rub it and show him I could do it.
I did not run my hand in your fly.
I said my father could not get work in Canowindra.
You did not tell me not to do it to myself as it would not do me any good.
I only knew one boy swimming.
I talked of bicycles when we got on the street again. I said I would catch a ride home.
To Bench: Accused undid my trousers. I did not try to stop him. The boys were swimming under the footbridge and we were under the railway bridge about a couple of hundred yards. Accused gave me the shilling on the way up from the bridge.
At Morebel I tried to get away from accused. I did not know what we went under the tree for. Accused did not say. I had a pretty good idea.
I have never let anyone else pull me about like this. I did not tell the accused that I had let anyone interfere with me at any time or that I did give to myself before that day.
By Accused: I said at Morebel “There is no road round the hill.”
By Police: You can see the town of Canowindra from where we were at Morebel and there is one distinct road. We were not going towards Canowindra when we went under the pepper tree.
Accused said he came up the way where we went behind the pepper tree.
I did not struggle with accused under the bridge.
To Bench: I told Mr Slattery because he asked me. I would not have said anything about it if he (Slattery) had not come to me.
(Read over and adhered to … WEH)
[Signed] Frank Fisher.
Taken and sworn at the Police Court, Canowindra this 21st day of March 1928 before.
[Signed] JB Scobie, PM.
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This Deponent sworn states:– My name is Harold James Slattery. I am a labourer and reside at Morebel. I remember the 5th instant. I saw the accused on that day passing my gate. He walked past my gate and a short time after he walked back past my place.
I saw accused with the boy Frank Fisher that afternoon about half past four o’clock. They went about 120 yards at the back of my place where there are some pepper trees. They got through my fence and got went under the pepper trees.
They were both standing together and the boy stepped away and got behind the pepper tree. Accused went round and caught him by the arm. The man undid the fly if [sic] his trousers and pulled out his private person and put the boy’s hand on it and got him to rub it. He held the boy’s hand while he was rubbing it.
I walked towards them and the man turned and walked across the paddock towards town.
I did not speak to the man. I spoke to the boy and he told me something and in consequence of what the boy told me I made a complaint to the Police.
Before they went up to the pepper tree the boy Fisher was playing on the main road in front of my brother’s place. As soon as accused came to the fence the boy ran over to him and they had a conversation. After that they walked up under the pepper tree.
By Accused: No questions.
Accused was under the pepper tree for four or five minutes. I was very sick at the time.
(Read over and adhered to … WEH)
[Signed] James Slattery.
Taken and sworn at the Police Court, Canowindra, this 21st day of March 1928 before.
[Signed] JB Scobie, PM.
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(F. 2– “Justice’s Act, 1902.”)
Statement of the Accused.
State of New South Wales, Canowindra
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James Wallace (hereinafter called the defendant) stands charged before the undersigned, one of His Majesty’s Police Magistrates and Justices of the Peace in and for the said State, this 21st day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty eight for that he, the said defendant, on the second day of March 1928, at Canowindra in the said State, did indecently assault Frank Fisher, a male person and the said charge being read to the said defendant, and the witnesses for the prosecution, George Arthur Morgan, Sergeant of Police at Canowindra, Harold James Slattery, labourer of Canowindra, Frank Fisher, school boy of Canowindra being severally examined in his presence, and (he having stated that he does not desire the depositions of the said witnesses to be read to him) the said defendant is now addressed by me the said Justice as follows:– “Having heard the evidence, do you with to say anything in answer to the charge? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so, but whatever you say will be taken down in writing, and may be given against you in evidence at your trial; and you are also informed, and are to clearly understand, that you have nothing to hope from any promise of favour, and nothing to fear from any threat which may have been holden out to you to induce you to make any admission or confession of your guilt, but whatever you now say may be given in evidence against you upon your trial notwithstanding such promise or threat.” Whereupon the said defendant saith as follows:– “I have made my statement to the Sergeant and it is true.” [Signed] J Wallace.
Taken before me and read over to the said defendant at Canowindra in the said State, the day and year first above mentioned.
[Signed] JB Scobie, PM.
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G. 190.
New South Wales,
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REX.
versus
James Wallace
Offence: Indecent assault on male person
The accused stands committed to take trial at the next Court of Supreme Court to be holden at Dubbo, in the State of New South Wales, on the twenty six day April of 1928, or at such other Court to be holden at such place and time as the Attorney-General may appoint. Bail allowed the accused in £ and two sureties in £ each, or one in £ Accused states “I have no chance of getting bail.” Bail not applied for.
[Signed] JB Scobie, PM
JP.
Dated at the Police
Office, Canowindra
in the said State,
this twenty first day of March
AD 1928.
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“Justice’s Act, 1902.”
Recognizance to give Evidence.
State of New South Wales, Canowindra
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Be it remembered, that on the 21st day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty eight George Arthur Morgan a Sergeant of the Police Force, stationed at Canowindra in the State of New South Wales, Harold James Slattery of Canowindra in the said State, labourer and John Henry Fisher, labourer of Canowindra in the said State, on behalf of Frank Fisher his son aged thirteen years personally came before the undersigned, one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said State, and acknowledged themselves to owe our Sovereign Lord the King the sum of
FORTY POUNDS EACH,
of good and lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of their goods and chattels, lands and tenements, to the use of our said Lord the King, his Heirs and Successors, if they the said before mentioned persons shall fail in the condition indorsed.
[Signed] GA Morgan, James Slattery, John Fisher.
Taken and acknowledged, the day and year first above mentioned, at Canowindra in the said State, before me.
[Signed] JB Scobie, PM.
The condition of the within written recognizance is such, that whereas one James Wallace was this day charged before JB Scobie Esquire one of His Majesty’s Police Magistrates and Justices of the Peace for the said State, for that on the 2nd day of March 1928, at Canowindra in the State of New South Wales, he did indecently assault Frank Fisher, a male person.
If, therefore, they the before mentioned persons shall appear at the next Court of Supreme Court to be holden at Dubbo in and for the State of New South Wales, on Thursday the 26th day of April 1928, at nine of the clock in the forenoon, and then and there give such evidence as they know, upon an information to be then and there preferred against the said James Wallace for the offence aforesaid, to the jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said James Wallace.
Then the said recognizance to be void, or else to stand in full force and virtue.
[Signed] JB Scobie, PM.
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Police Charge No. 19 of 1928.
Clerk of Petty Sessions Cowra.
7th March 1928.
James Wallace (aged 62), who is charged for that on the second day of March 1928 he at Canowindra in the State of New South Wales, he did indecently assault Frank Fisher, a male person.
Pleads -----
By consent adjourned until the 21st March 1928. Bail not applied for.
[Signed] WE Hewit, JP.
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Police Charge No. 20 of 1928.
Court of Petty Sessions, Canowindra,
7th March 1928.
James Wallace (age 62), who is charged for that on the fifth day of March 1928 he at Canowindra in the State of New South Wales, he did indecently assault Frank Fisher, a male person.
Pleads -----
By consent adjourned until the 21st March 1928. Bail not applied for.
[Signed] WE Hewit, JP.
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[On the depositions’ cover sheet is the following]
Supreme Court.
Dubbo
26th April 1928
AG’s No. -----
Depositions.
CS’s No. 4
Rex
v.
James Wallace
Indecent assault on a male person
Committed at Canowindra
21st March 1928
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Court. Supreme Court Dubbo
Date. 24-4-28
Cor. Davidson Judge.
Plea. Guilty
Verdict.
Judgment. 12 mths imprisonment
WCH for CP
Crown Prosecutor
Note.– In event of postponement, it should be stated whether accused admitted to bail.
Indecent assault on a male
[Initial illegible]
27.3.28
Legal aid refused
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Justice CGW Davidson’s notebook 2 & 3
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[Dubbo] Saturday 28 April 1928
R v Wallace
Prisoner pleads guilty.
Sergeant sworn – no record – boy – know personally – not of normal intelligence – dull.
12 months imprisonment from the 18th March in such gaol as the comptroller shall direct.
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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate, Fri 27 Apr 1928 4
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY CASE.
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THE BALE OF WOOL THAT DID NOT REACH
ITS DESTINATION.
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TWO RAILWAY MEN AND WOOL BUYER ON TRIAL.
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(Before his Honor Judge Davidson).
A sitting of the Circuit Court was commenced on Thursday morning at the Court House.
Mr N McTague appeared to prosecute on behalf of the Crown.
Mr ER Hawke, Deputy Sheriff, was also in attendance, and occupied a seat on the Bench.
Mr VS Wesche acted as Judge’s Associate, and Mr AE Lyon was Clerk of the Court.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL
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AN UNMENTIONABLE OFFENCE.
At the Circuit Court this morning, before his Honor Judge Davidson, James Wallace pleaded guilty to committing an assault on a male person at Canowindra on March 2nd, 1928. Accused was remanded for sentence until to-morrow morning.
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Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent, Tue 1 May 1928 5
ASSAULT ON A BOY.
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At the Circuit Court on Monday, before Mr Justice Davidson, James Wallace, a man approaching elderly life, pleaded guilty to an assault upon a 13-year-old boy at Canowindra.
When asked if he desired to say anything, Wallace said he had nothing to say.
Sergeant [George Arthur] Morgan, of Canowindra, explained that accused was stranger to Canowindra, and it was not known if he had any previous convictions. None could be traced. He was a single man. The boy was not or [sic] ordinary intelligence and was easily led.
His Honor said to the prisoner that he had pleaded guilty to an offence which incurred severe censure and a heavy penalty. It was difficult to believe a man of prisoner’s age could be concerned in such an offence. People should be able to allow their children to go about without being hampered by people such as the prisoner was. He had to pass a sentence which was more or less severe. He sentenced Wallace to 12 months in a gaol which the Comptroller of Prisons might decide. The sentence would date from the arrest of accused, March 18.
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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate, Tue 1 May 1928 6
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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UNNATURAL OFFENCE SENTENCE.
In sentencing James Wallace, 50, to 12 months’ imprisonment for an abominable offence, the victim being a boy living in Canowindra, his Honor Judge Davidson, said last Saturday morning that these offences had to be severely punished. People should be able to send their children about without fear of their being tampered with by degenerates. The sentence was made to date from March 18th, since when the accused had been in goal.
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James Wallace, Gaol photo sheet 7
![SRNSW: NRS2467, [3/6121], State Penitentiary photographic description book, 24 Feb 1928-23 Jun 1928, No. 23079, p. –.](../../images/trials/1928-Wallace-6121-gaol-photo-23079.jpg "SRNSW: NRS2467, [3/6121], State Penitentiary photographic description book, 24 Feb 1928-23 Jun 1928, No. 23079, p. –.") |
Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details
No. 23079
Date when Portrait was taken: 1-6-1928
Name: James Wallace
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Native place: Bringelly Year of birth: 6-11-1865 Arrived Ship: Trade or occupation Religion: Presbyterian Education, degree of: R & W Height: 5' 6⅜" Weight On committal: 163 Colour of hair: Brown to Grey Colour of eyes: Grey |
Marks or special features: Scar inside right upper arm. |
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1928 |
Indecent assault on a male person |
12 months HL |
1 SRNSW: NRS880, [9/7308], Supreme Court, Papers and depositions, Dubbo, 1928, No. 4. Emphasis added.
2 SRNSW: NRS5844, [3/4991], Judiciary, CGW Davidson, J. Notebooks Circuit, 1928-46, p. 20.
3 Mr Justice Colin George Watt Davidson was educated at Mudgee Grammar School and Sydney University. He was called to the NSW Bar on 24 October 1901 and practised at chambers in the Supreme Court, NSW Law Almanac 1902, p. 41, was appointed a King’s Counsel in 1926, and became an Acting Judge of the Supreme Court from 1926-27. Who’s Who in Australia 1935, p.145. He was a Judge of the Supreme Court of NSW from 1927-49. He also served as Chairman of the Royal Commissions on the Coal Industry 1929-30, and the Safety and Health of Workers in Coal Mines, 1938-39. He died on 8 July 1954. NSW Law Almanac 2005 , p. 26.
4 The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate, Fri 27 Apr 1928, pp. 5, 6.
5 Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent, Tue 1 May 1928, p. 4. Emphasis added.
6 The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate, Tue 1 May 1928, p. 4.
7 SRNSW: NRS2467, [3/6121], State Penitentiary photographic description book, 24 Feb 1928-23 Jun 1928, No. 23079, p. –.