A DEPLORABLE CASE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3404, 7 February 1920, Page 5

A DEPLORABLE CASE.

JUDGE CHAPMAN ’S CASTIGATION

AUCKLAND, Feb.

In the Supreme Court a man accused of robbery with violence had to submit to a severe castigation from Mr Justice Chapman. His Honour said that a man who had distinguished himself at the front, getting the 1\1.C., should have behaved as accused had. Accused had received £2OO deferred pay, and £lOl7 gratuity, and in six months the Whole of it was gone in riotous living. Three licensed houses were mentioned as the principal places where his money was spent.‘ “I intend,” said the judge, “to forward this evidence to the Minister for Justice, whose business it will be to say what shall be done to a man who has distinguished himself and has now «lisgraced himself in a manner that would disgrace the very swine themselves.”