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Interloping at a history conference The Digital Panopticon: Penal history in a digital age

Research Brief 24   As the Prosecution Project’s resident statistician, I recently infiltrated my first history conference – the Digital Panopticon held at the University of Tasmania. I must admit that this conference was one of the most fascinating I have attended. Interesting not only for the variety of projects we heard about, but for […]

On this week in... 1918

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.

This trial report is from Queensland Times

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