A FISTICUFF ENCOUNTER.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1919, Page 2

A FISTICUFF ENCOUNTER.

ON A RAILWAY STATION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Oamaru, Feb. 12. An exciting fisticuff encounter occurred this morning on the Oamaru railway station just before the early morning train departed for Dunedin. The protagonists were two well known members of the military police, Sergt. Lattimore and Corporal Jackson, the sergeant getting decidedly the worst of the bout. Both were in civilian dress,

It appears that Corporal Jackson, who has been doing military duty in Oamaru for some time, got to know that Sergeant Lattiinore, dressed in civilian clothes, had arrived from Dunedin, and, it is alleged, was spying on the movements, of the. Corporal.

Lattimore was severely punished and took train to Dunedin a sadder and wiser military policeman. Corporal Jackson is a returned soldier, and comes of a family of five soldiers, He served on Galiipoli, and is a well known Auckland athlete and boj.«r. He is familiarly known as "Stonewall" Jackson. He was,for many months in charge.of the.quarantine station at Dunedin. Corporal Jackson declares that he has been forced to taice extreme measures in the interests of the returned men as a protest against the methods of the military police. He returned to Dunedin under open arrest, and demands a court-martial and the fullest public inquiry. Sergeant Lattimore, who has not seen active service, recently raised public protest by the arrest of a returned soldier in Dunedin wearing'the D.C.M. and under the doctor's care. Ha has been, stationed at Featherston, Wellington, Dunedin, Christchurch and Invercargill,