A SHIRKER SENT TO GAOL.
Hamilton, Yesterday. At the Magistrate's Court to-day. AVilliam Fleming was charged with a breach of the Military Service Act by refusing to answer questions put to him by a police constable. The police evidence was to the effect that accused was engaged in bushfelling at Mahoenui, and when asked for his registration card was unable to produce it. He refused to answer any questions. It had sinco been ascertained that he • was recently discharged from Wanganui Prison, Avhcre lie served a month for failure to enrol. The police characterised the case as one of deliberate shirking and defiance of the law, and asked for a substantial penalty. Accused was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19180801.2.18
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1859, 1 August 1918, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
119A SHIRKER SENT TO GAOL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1859, 1 August 1918, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in