DOMINION'S PART.
A COURT-MARTIAL. FOR WILFUL DISOBEDIENOE. • Auckland, Last Night. Private Egertbn Gill was courtmartialled to-day for wilful disobedience of an order given by his superior officer to parade for medical examination. Accused refused to plead. He claimed he was in no sense a soldier. The power | claimed under the Military Service Act, as far as sending soldiers out of New Zealand was concerned, was not within the range of the constitution. H« would submit to no legal defence as sjjch. ~ lie claimed that at a trial the 'possibilities of a sentence of hard, labor he was entitled to a jury. A verdict of guilty was brought in, and sentence will be promulgated later.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1918, Page 5
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114DOMINION'S PART. Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1918, Page 5
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