SOLDIER SUGGESTS JAIL AFTER WAR
Dominion Special Service. AUCKLAND, October 23. “I am a useful and valuable warrantofficer iu the Army. In peacetime I have no value.” This was the unusual plea ot Henry John Clissold Hartley, a quarter-master-sergeant, aged 45 years, when he came before Mr. Justice Fair for sentence ou an admitted offence of otsafay’ and suggested that he should be.allowed to continue service iu the Army and then take his punishment after the war. In reply to questions from the Bench, Hartley, who bad.left a wife find family in England and had married a woman in New Zealand, said he had served in the Middle East, and was one of the experienced men sent to New Zealand as instructors. , , . . His Honour said that the prisoners ' novel suggestion could not be entertained for obvious reasons, and sentenced tne man to six months’ imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 25, 24 October 1942, Page 10
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145SOLDIER SUGGESTS JAIL AFTER WAR Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 25, 24 October 1942, Page 10
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