FINE FOR DISLOYAL UTTERANCE.
Auckland, Feb. 15
Golden Baldwin (aged thirty-five) was brought before Mr Cutten, S.M., this morning on a charge that he published a statement indicating disloyalty. Baldwin entered a plea of guilty. A constable went to his camp to bring him in for examination, and Baldwin made use of disloyal language, stating that he “would be a fool to go to the front,” and “they were all fools that went to the front.”
Baldwin said he was angry at the time, but immediately afterwards was sorry for what he had said.
The Magistrate stated that the case was different from the usual charge of the kind, in that there was no question of an endeavour to influence other people. The language might be looked on more as a form of profanity than a real expression of disloyally. Punishment would not be made more than sufficient to act as a warning. Baldwin was fined £5.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1676, 17 February 1917, Page 3
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157FINE FOR DISLOYAL UTTERANCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1676, 17 February 1917, Page 3
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