"ASSAULT" ON A CADET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 15, 18 June 1913, Page 7

"ASSAULT" ON A CADET.

MAGISTRATE REORKTS IT WAS NOT A TtIBASUINQ, I Napier, June 14. j Lieutenant J. Bishop, who has been promoted to Napier from Clisborne, recently appeared before' the flisborne Magistrate on a disuse of assaulting a cadet by striking him with a cane. According to the evidence given, some cadets werp engaged in horse play in (.he Gisborne drillslied, and. amongst, other tricks, were kicking a tin round the room, an awful din resulting. Lieutenant Bishop stooped to pick up the improvised but very noisy bull, when the lad, Stanley Uudson, kicked i( away from his reach. • One or more strokes, variously estimated from a'tap to a severe blow by the dill'ercnt witnesses, followed, and young Hudson, evidently smarting in more ways than one, devoted his attention to kicking another tin round the room. Another of the .Hudson family was summoned for breaches of the Defence Act. and then followed the information against the officer. After hearing the evidence, the Magistrate said he felt sorry the lieutenant had not indicted a good sound thrashing. The -Magistrate held that a technical a-sanlt had been committed, !>ut lie dismissed the case,as one of a trivial nature.