A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR.
BEFORE MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
'By Telegraph.—Press Association. t i „-„. Wellin g to »- Last Night. John Wilham Rogers was charged at the Magistrate's Court to-day with failing to make application to ho enrolled in the reserve. When asked to plead Rogers nourished a Bible, saying: 'My religious convictions forbid me having anything to do with matters in connection with the war." The Magistrate, Mr. G. Reid: "We cannot go into your conscientious objections." Here Inspector Marsack remarked that the accused claimed the ordinary protection of a citizen of the Dominion. Accused: I do not claim any citizenship on earth; my citizenship is in heaven. I have that 'faith in God that nothing can come to me than what God permits." Finally the magistrate said he would give accused a chance to obey the law. He would be convicted and ordered to appear for sentence when called upon,
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19170414.2.43
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1917, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
148A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR. Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1917, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in