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Train Assault Case Brings Guilty Verdict in 1939 Strathfield Incident
Alexander Campbell Anderson, 21, faced three quarter sessions for injuring Nola Ruth Smede on the Kempsey mail train to Taree on 23 October 1939. Miss Smede, a domestic science teacher, described a brutal assault using a water bottle amid a swaying carriage. The jury found Anderson guilty. the judge sentenced him to five years hard labour, noting the brutal nature and risk to life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Campbell Anderson
Stratford
Nola Ruth Smede
G. P. L. Hungerford
Messrs Hartin, Wheeler and Williams
Newcastle
F. W. Berne
Taree
Kempsey
Gosford
Jed
Tom
Nev
Gloucester
Mr. Hungerford
Bottee
Alice May Long
Sydney
Kempsey Oi
Miss Smede
Miss Smade
James Arthur Shue
Petersham
Kempsey Mail
Strathfield
Dungog
William Byron
Tady
William McChesney
S.A Railton
Smede
Hungerford
Mr. Bere
Thomas M. Murray
Forbesdale
Berrico
Giles
Macksville
Sutherland
Maitland
A.L
Waratah
Broadmeadow
New Lambton
ALP
Ley
Broadmeaton
Hongerfor
Newastle
Misa Smede
ALF
Anderson