Bingarooma Court-Martial.
(PBB PBBSB ASSOCIATION} . Sydney, April 30. The Court-Martial in connection with the trouble" 6n i bpardH.M.S Ringarooma, has Commenced. The following charges are laid^against Surgeon Lea by Capt; Johnston, viz., treating the captain contemptuously, refusing to go below whenjordered to be placed under arrest, and refusing' to obey a command to sign an entry in a log; stating that he had been placed under arrest. It transpires Capt. Johnston charged Surgeon Lea with neglect o_f duty in connec-tion;witli--"certain provisions made for the treatment, of wounded in action. The doctor hejd that the matter complained of was part of his.duty. ; Later in the day the doctor ordered the Captain to go belolw. as he was on the sick h*Bt and required to be placed under observation. Captain Johnston declined' and" in turn placed the doctor under arrest. The latter refused to obey the order as the captain was on the sick list, and therefore not in command of the ship. Lea was subsei^quently released by direction of Captain Wf Castle, senior officer in charge of the station.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 255, 1 May 1895, Page 3
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178Bingarooma Court-Martial. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 255, 1 May 1895, Page 3
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