TROUBLE AT A CAMP.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 233, 11 March 1915, Page 5

TROUBLE AT A CAMP.

I ■ " ' , J ASSAULT OK A SENTRY. 1 . .. ' , » ■ " I* By Telegraph.—Press Association. r 1 Grcymouth, Last Night". . Between » and 10 o'clock last night, l at Totara Flat camp, where the 13th, 1 Regiment is under canvas, trouble'b« , curred in the vicinity of the guard temfc, ; situated 100. yards from the main camp, \ Several territorials are reported to have ; interfered with a territorial named Neil j Pearee, while on duty as sentry. PearcS _ was taken to the military hospital, suf- ; fering from the effects of a'Severe blowj ' on the side of fjhe jaw, and wag medi- ' 1 cally attended. 'The extent of hi 3 in- • Junes wa 3 not known last night, but it waa feared the lower jaw-bone had been i fractured. (Robert Gibbon, of A Coml pny (Grcymouth), was arrested and formally charged with assault by tho military authority, and subsequently, ! handed over to the civil authorities to deal with. Gibbons was brought to town this morning by Constable Bruton, and was brought before the Grcymouth S.St. Court this afternoon. , In reply to his Worship, Sergeant ißgan said the offenc e had been committed at the territorial camp, but he could not say why the militaryj authorities had not dealt with lie case. The Magisrate said that in his ooinion ' the military authorities had no right to pass the charge on to the- civil court. If a man committed assault on another; when they were both in uniform, under military law the authorities at the camp should take the case upon their own, shoulders. K he had any. means of refusing to hear the charge he would do' so, for the military authorities should take on their own responsibilities instead • of shoving them on to other people. Mr. Joyce intimated that the defendant had bean bundled out of the camp hag and baggage, and it appeared that whilst the authorities refused to deal with the cTiarge on the one handfjfc- ' fendant had been summarily dealt with on the other. Bail was fixed in two,' sureties of £25 each, and accused remanded till Monday next to allow of the injured man being present. ' ' —-'