Frederick Baglin

In 1916, Baglin was preselected as the Labor candidate for the Legislative Council's West Province. He was defeated by only 15 votes, despite his Liberal opponent, Sir Henry Briggs, being the sitting President of the Legislative Council.^[3] At the 1918 Legislative Council election, Baglin repeated his candidacy, running against another sitting member, the Nationalist Party's Robert Lynn. He was defeated a second time, losing with 48.3 percent of the vote,^[4] but succeeded on his third attempt, defeating Joseph Allen at the 1920 election.^[1]

In July 1923, Baglin was arrested and charged with three offences of stealing as a servant, the most serious of which was the theft of A£414.10s.6d. from the ALP Fremantle District Council (his former employer).^[5] He pled guilty the following month to that charge (with the other two similar charges being dropped), and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour.^[6] Little is known of Baglin's activities after his release from prison, including his date of death.^[1] He is known to have been living in Queensland in 1952 (aged 80), when he was the victim of a criminal assault.^[7]