"CADGING FORR BEER ORDERS ”

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2161, 29 May 1914, Page 7

"CADGING FORR BEER ORDERS ”

Ij&,vARMY,cAMEM,.scai)ALS::;^;;::; ; : REBUKE W An :;i|| : ;■;;■;■■ _- v ;.p^e7:jv^Jl- - DARLING'S STEBN'.-■ :i^s ; -■: CaNBBMNATION^s^i^ By.'r€i«.-rivj)h-.Pi'eEii AsEocwf lflu—Cosyrich* ."■■*':■:- ..■■' ~: 'vi.'" Loftden, May 27. ■ JMiutc) (olw time head of Liptoii's Military Blorcs Dcpartnveiit) ' ami <sx- j Colonel Whilaker were feum! guilty of: beint; eoncenwd iu the cautecu scandals.. . . -■■■:■ ! Wliitakcr's defence was that no fav- i our had beoti sisown to Jjiytou's; the only hioueys he (\VbitaU6r) hud received tarn as compensation fov a visit toOreto. ■ AVhitakcr road a Setter from Colonel Ficnnes, representing tile firm of ivlaidstono brewers, ofcrmg him' a f>*co trip, and asking hiin to' ttse liis inllucnco with a coloirel in Crete ou bolialt' of their beer. Wkiitakor. iu broken accents, said :e. lwd »Ot hem aworo that he was doing wrong, at tho instuico of th* gcntlctoaii iiamed; he did it because ho was in nood of money, fenviag two sons at Maisdhurst, Hβ throw iiimsolf o« tho Jiklbo's mercj- , . Mr. Justice Davliftg, iu suramihg wp, Riiiti it was regwtts.tik tli.afc Calqne,! Fioancs, who was ik»v Lord Say* ami Sole, and whose atieostar had jvut his hund to , the- Magsa .Charta, rljcs»M libw written such a Inttor. Ho sternly condciaftcd t! : ia (Iccaclcncs shown by tho reprtsentative of a- great family when cadging ft>, orders for bear. Whitater was scntoiwetl to sis months' imprisonment. The Atlier militafy mew found guilt.? wero bound over; Sib.to nntl Cnusiicld wore fined £500 caek, Criiip; £100 S and Laiiiß, Ovrcn, Pegly, and * Lyncti £'55 cacb: nnc! Swa.iu was bound over. Whitaker made ft sfieoiirl ajipnal Mr clomenoy, but ttio Jtt(3g« ordered liis removal froflj tl». Court.