GISBORNE COURT MARTIAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1496, 19 July 1912, Page 5

GISBORNE COURT MARTIAL.

(By Teteeranh.-Preii Annotation.) ' Gisborne, July 18. Tho findings, of the Court Martial which sat in Gisborne last weke to deal with charges of committing offcneci> flgainst discipline preferred against ten privates belonging to "A" Squadron, oth Wellington East- Coast Mounted Rifles, here, wero announced fa-day by Captain Morrison, adjutant of the regiment. The ten men wero each arra : gned on the following chargo:—"With disobeying fin such ii manner as to show a wilful defiance of authority) n lawful command given personally by his superior officer in tho execution of his office, in "that, ot Gisborne, on May 22, 1.-einp on parade, fey refii-wd to' number off when ordered to do so by Liutenant Chas. Sprang." Privates Alfred Stanley Parker, Harry Watts, Robert Douglas, Winton Gore Porter, and Noel Heavy Bull, were each eonvioiof! n? tho first elmige, and sentonTl to ' U days' detention. Privato Rudolph TTntisfSi,' for a. similar offence, v:a,«s nentoncpd to 21 davs' (Mention. Privnt»s Jolin (•'redorick Hansen, John Johnston,. Alllirf; l-'orrle, MatHiews, and ThrNnws William Slingsley wero also found guilly on their own i>lp,i of U.p firsf>n>med offence, and fcund not guilty on charges of using bad language. Slinjjsby wa.s sentenced to 21 days' dietention, and the nthcr.4 to 11 days. . . The sentences were decided on by the Court, and thesi woro submitted tn the ftffircr commanding t;hf! Distnitt C for Cottfiriuation. In every case ho ivinfirmo<l tho sentoiicej jm-po-cd .but granted remissions which brousht all the sentences to ono level as a day's ; mprisonm<Mif\ This IcT.m having pxpiivd at midnight on Wednesday, the, mon were discharged, tho state of b«ng under artwt since the Court Martial wving A 4 "niiliUry detention,,*