THE FEATHERSTON COURTMARTIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1917, Page 5

THE FEATHERSTON COURTMARTIAL.

THE CASE bIiOSED. \ ' • Telegraph.-jr-PresS Association. , • Wellington, Last Nigjit. The 'court martial on Private Thompson concluded to-day. |y Thompson, in* his evidence,, said *•' wlien ha wept, bsfj)re,the Medical Board v ; he intended to 'fisk a question, but Dr. Hotop ffskecf: "AVliy are jrou not at thoi front?" Witness replied: "Because lam unfit." Dr. Hotop asked him how ha ■' knew, and witness replied by reference to the file records of the office. D?\ Hotop asked him what right he had to se# / the files, and he replied that he worked iit the Base Records Office, and handled the flics, Thompson said he then asked why he had been boarded. Dr. Hotop said he did not know, .and, even if he v did, Thompson had no Tight to know. Thompson insisted he had $ right to know. /, ■ t Corporal Walker deposed that whan in t tlie' board room he thought Dr. Hotop J was under the influence of liquor. When l i asked if lie would persist in that belief in face of the evidence of three doctors '■ .< that Dr. Hotop was sober and norma), ■" witness said "No." , 4 ' Accused's counsel and the prosecutor i addressed the court, which then close# ' .