MONTH IN GAOL
REFUSAL TO HAND OVER .303 RIFLE ON GROUND OF OPPOSITION TO MURDER. MAN SENTENCED IN WELLINGTON (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Pleading guilty to a charge of failing to deliver a weapon on demand, John Bernard Nightingall claimed that, by handing over a .303 rifle, he might have become an accomplice to murder. He was opposed to murder, he said, or to being an accomplice to murder, whether mass organised or not. It was opposed to true Christianity and he had no choice but to obey his Master’s command and suffer for His sake, whatever penalty the Court saw fit to impose. Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., said the interests of the country were paramount and when a man was asked to deliver his rifle it was his duty to do so. He sentenced Nightingall to a month’s imprisonment with hard labour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1941, Page 6
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146MONTH IN GAOL Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1941, Page 6
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