GOLF LINKS MYSTERY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 111, 12 May 1916, Page 2

GOLF LINKS MYSTERY.

An inquest was held at Dendal a few weeks a?o concerning the death of Miss Lillie Hadwin, aged 21, of Bradley Farm, Dendal, whose body was found in a quarry between the 15 and 17th holes on Kendal golf links. She had been keeping company with a soldier. It was stated that a greenkeeper found her body, still warm, in the quarry. The lovers had been walking' put on a Monday evening between seven and nine o'clock. On that evening the soldier returned to his billet in a dazed eenditon, apparently suffering from concussion, and only conscious at intervals. In his statement to the police he said: "The whele thing is a blank. The only thing I remember is that we walked along by a hut at the top of a wood. We heard a noise, and a civilian came to an opening close to the hut, and said: 'What do you want?' We were both very much surprised at the commanding tone in which he spoke, and apparently he was not alone. I said: 'lt is all right, s ir. We are walking along this way.' We continued to walk, hearing nothing, and seeing nothing. Since then I have a very faint notion of being laid en the ground, by whom I cannot say. Beyond that I know nothing, as evidently I must have been unconscious. I do not knew how I got home." A nonstable said a soldier's stick was found near the body. The soldier was remanded en a charge of wilful murder. THE HUMAN TOUCH. WHY HE BROKE BOUNDS. The folowing story forms the subject of an energetic leading article in the Gentlewoman. The stcry is told by a young American officer who was serving with the British trcops; he ; said, "Well, the first time it was like this: We were supposed to be engaged in nice, civilised warfare, and even after the Huns had done the most awful things we were under the strictest orders to stick to Boyle. Lord Bryce made a fine speech in Parliament against reprisals, and the Government adopted his policy, and the officers passed stern words down the line, and if any chap* broke over the line he was in bad. You can imagine how strict they were when I tell you that for four successive days the Germans banged away at our ambulances with particular relish, and we stood there and let them gather up their wounded and never pulled a trigger. But the time came when my pal, as fine a young Englishman as God ever made, got his along with a dozen or more others, but he was still able to wave that he was enly wounded. Two of my boys were just lifting him into the ambulance, when all three were shot to pieces. Then I bided my time, which was not long in coming. A score or so of Germans lay writhing in a heap after a futile assault, and I got the range of my 18-pcun4£r and waited. Sure enough, in 20 minutes or so out came an ambulance with, I guess, a dozen soldiers, as nonchalantly as you please, and feeling as safe as a clock, as they had every reascn to feel. They got their wounded aboard, and were just starting back, when I blew the whole lot to and gone. Of course, I got it in the neck at headquarters the next morning, but they let our ambulances alone after that."