Ingenious Trick of a Soldier.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 174, 16 October 1886, Page 3 (Supplement)

Ingenious Trick of a Soldier.

A case which was brought under the Army Acfc, in the Edinburgh Sheriff Court recently had some, amusing features. Ifc seems that a tipsy miner was in a publichouse, Edinburgh, when one of the - Seaforth Highlanders from th,6, (Castle entered. Placing his glencarry on the, minqc'js, head, he said:— "Now, .that's, a shilling you'll have to stand 'the company." The t minor good-naturedly paid for a shil liug's worth of liquor,, j and the soldier then induced him to try on his .military jacket, and subsequently, all the rest of, the uniform,,, " just to^aee^hpw^e 4qoked." The soldier meanwhile, had been assuming the civilian dress of the miner, and, when opportunity ©ffer.ed, , h^ t , disappeared, leaving the miner, in, 4 thje ''Highland uniform, Tp a drunken .etate/heJlgaUiedjout into the High-afcreet, w,hf re a wp/se fate, befell Jbiir., for he was espied by' (the, -Sergeant of a patrpl .p^arttyj^and^q^rried'^Cjto barracks. , There he related ho w^p^had been duped, and ..investigation s^qwed; that 'the uniform, belonged^ Eciv:at;e Jakes w.ho hasjnpt since, »The, prir fipner,,namedi;i)an,\el, ?i O!lui\ep, was charged „wjth -escape," bufhis lordship found the charge not proven iM^utten • wjllingty ,agreed , tjoj- giy§ ? t >tip the clpthea, invwhioh tie|B^ei^edi to feel yery.jll atea Be. ' It was stated jthat, a,^Mppilar case once occurred, in Windsor. "