MILITARY COURT OF INQUIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1919, Page 4

MILITARY COURT OF INQUIRY.

ON A MISSING PBIVATHL By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Ln*t Night. The Military Court of Inquiry into. the disappearance of Private George Mould, who returned per the Oxfordshire, and disappeared from the Maori on the night of the 3rd February, between Wellington and Lyttelton, was opened to-d«.y. Sergeant-Major Little deposed that he gave the man a steerage ticket at Wellington and saw him on the Maori, and a chum told him he had put Mould to bed Mould had been drinking, but noi sufficiently to impair his mental faculties. Lieutenant McCarthy, military landing officer, narrated the st<sps taken to clear th.j mystery, and said that on February 22 ur 23 the a*9urtant purser of the Maori told him be saw a soldier jump overboard with a handkerchief wound round his eyes, on the trip which carried the Oxfordshire's men. The purser added that he took no steps to have the man recovered, as there were nuite a number of persons on deck, and he thought action had been taken. 1 Lioiit»nant McCarthy further added that f*m ■• --nbsequent trip with the draft by tfle Mats''"a Ihe troops of that draft <ttid fiie Mntatna passed the body of ft soldier floating at sea on February 16. The court adjourned till next Tue3« day to take further evidence. * The president said an endeavor should be made to secure the attendance of- the Maori's assistant purser.