Judicious guilty plea
On 5 August 1918, Percy Charles Fiddler was tried at the Brisbane Supreme Court for breaking and entering the shop of Richard Herbet Lewis at Silkstone, near Ipswich, and stealing a quantity of clothing and dress material. Fiddler judiciously plead guilty to the lesser offence of simple stealing. After hearing statements by counsel and the defendant’s employer Justice Chubb said he would take all the circumstances, including the fact that the defendant had a wife and five children, into account and give him another chance. He gave Fiddler a sentence of one year hard labour, to be suspended on a recognisance of £100 to be of good behaviour during that period.
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