THE GAUDIN CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 211, 13 February 1915, Page 8

THE GAUDIN CASE.

JUO:iiIKXT RESERVED. T.v Te'egra; h.—Per Press Association. Wellington, February 12. I„ the Supreme Court, before Mir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, and Mr Justice Edwards, application was made for a writ of habeas corpus for the release of Gaudin, now- undergoing five years' military detention in Auckland, on grounds that he is illegally detained. Gaudin was tried at Samoa before a military tribunal o n charges of war treason". In an affidavit he stated that

ho was not given an opportunity of con- : suiting counsel before the trial. Sir' John Findlay. for Gaudin. deI scribed the sentence' passed on Gaudin as a savage one ciilon'atcd to sliock every right-thinking man and woman in New Zealand. Tile, court said counsel should no! 'make sueli a reflection on another court. Sir John Findiay: "What I want to submit is that the imposing of imprisonment in itself excludes the jurisdiction of martial law." He added that there was no legal authority for Gaudin's arrest and that the statutes and regulaI tions diil not confer on the Governor the right to invest the militry and police I right to invest the military and police so exercised as to constitute tyranny. i Later. Judgment was reserved.