TRAINING CAMP EPISODE.
OVERLAPPING AUTHORITIES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Greymouth, last night. Mr Hewitt, S.M., refused to deal with the information against a Territorial, named Gibbous, charged with assaulting and causing bodily harm to Neil Pearce while in the training. camp at Totara "Flat. He held that, whilst he had jurisdiction, the ease was one of purely military offence, which should not be referred to the civil court. Counsel for defendant submitted that the military authorities having handed the defendant over to the civil power, could not now deal with him. As regards the alleged bodily harm, counsel stated that the jaw had not been broken as ftt first alleged, but Pearce had since been operated on for abscess on the teeth. The accused was subsequently arrested on the warrant of Colonel Richardson, and will be handed back to the military authorities.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 237, 16 March 1915, Page 5
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141TRAINING CAMP EPISODE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 237, 16 March 1915, Page 5
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