THEFTS BY SOLDIERS
Case Referred To Army
Asking why. the'Army could not deal with them, Mr. Stout, S.M., dismissed two soldiers charged before him in Wellington yesterday with theft. They were Mervyn Itasniufseii, aged 21. and Dougins William Morgan, aged 23, and they admitted stealing four gallons of petrol, the property of the Government, valued at 10/6. i
Senior-Sergeant T. Campagnolo said that at 9.15 p.m. on Monday a constable noticed an Army truck pull up in a street alongside a car. Morgan was in charge of the truck, and Rasmussen in charge of the car. They siphoned petrol from the truck into the car with a length cf hose.
The magistrate asked why the Army bad not dealt with the men, pointing out rhal both were in the Army and the petrol was Army petrol. A lieutenant who was in Court said that, if it had been an Army offence the men would have been dealt with by the Army, hut they had been arrested by the civil police. He would dismiss the charges and let the Army deal with the men, said the magistrate. He could send them to jail, but the Army could give them Army, detention.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 34, 4 November 1942, Page 6
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200THEFTS BY SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 34, 4 November 1942, Page 6
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