COURT MARTIAL
ENQUIRY •T > ROCEE'DS. ’{i. (Per Preqs Association — Copyright.) AUCKLAND, September 28.
The trial by naval court martial of petty officer Samuel George Adams, a .supply pett^-officer in the sloop Laburwas to-day. Accused was charged -inter alia with fraudulently converting £i7 10s Bd.
Addressing the court, civilian counsel for the defence paid a tribute to the fairness with which the evidence for the prosecution had been presented. ■He said the evidenc e of the naval niedical officers, that accused’s neurasthemic condition was principally due to alcoholism, ,wo»ld be contradicted, and it would b 6 proved that his action in wandering off the ship in the early hours of the 1 morning was due to neurasthenia, not caused -by a'cohol. 'Counsel said the failure to keep b°oks by which the issues of clothing could be Checked, made it impossible to produce evidence such as would be needed to justify a conviction in any criminal court. Adequate proof -of the charge of fraudulent conversion was impossible from the hotchpotch of blundering and inaccuracy which the evidence had disclosed (Proceeding).
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1932, Page 6
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