"ANARCHY-NOTHING ELSE!"

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1187, 24 July 1911, Page 4

"ANARCHY-NOTHING ELSE!"

FATHER ABETS HIS SON TO DEFY THE LAW. IBy Teleerapn-Presa Association.! Nelson, July 22. At tho court tliis morning the adjourned hearing, of the case against a youth named X'cier Thomson lor lauiug to register us a Territorial was continued. Tho oilicor representing tho Defence Department stared tnat ueiciulaut had not registered. JJcleudant's lather had religious scruples against military service, and had declined to permit the youth to Ttio magistrate said that the father had no standing—it was the boy whom ho had to deal with, and he had made up his mind about tho matter. As a matter of fact, tho father was aiding and abetting his son to dety the lnw, and was equally liable. It would be absurd if the statutes of the country were to Iμ set aside in that way. It was'anarchy and nothing else. The father mado several ineffectual attempts to get his version in reply to the magistrate. Defendant snid that he himself did not refuse to register, but his father did. The magistrate said that defendnnt must ehooso between his father and the law, and the law had tho first claim.

Asked again, defendant said that ho would register, but. the father intervened, and said that defendant was not to register. Defendant then said that he would not register, and was convicted and fined £!>. Defendant, in reply to tho magistrate, said Unit he had no money. He had a bicycle for which he had paid £i. Defendant's father then said that ho could givo his sou certain goods and chattels. The magistrate remarked that if the amount of the fine was not forthcoming on the issue of tho warrant ho would fix tho default. Tho father then said that his son would leavo the country.