DEFAULTERS JAILED
Escape From Detention
Declining to plead, Christopher David Reeves Palmer, motor engineer, aged '-3, and Mervyn Mills Brown, painter, aged 22, appeared before Mr. Stout. S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court. Wellington, yesterday, charged with having escaped from the Whenuaroa military defaulters' detention camp. They were each sentenced to three months’ hard labour. “The department views this as quite a serious matter.” said Senior-Sergeant Payne. Brown had been in detention camp for two rears and seven months when he escaped, having 38 days’ liberty before he was arrested when seen addressing a crowd in a Wellington street. Palmer had served two years and eight months when he escaped, to be arrested 37 days later. Brown had been committed from Hamilton and Palmer from Dargaville.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 229, 24 June 1944, Page 8
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125DEFAULTERS JAILED Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 229, 24 June 1944, Page 8
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