MILITARY COURT-MARTIAL.
TROUBLESOME SOLDIERS PUNISHED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GREY-MOUTH, this day. Private Gibbons, who had been kept in the police custody from Monday till Friday last, was court-martialled at Totara Flat Camp on Saturday. H e was charged: ll) With absenting himself from camp without leave; (2) breaking away from the military police when under arrest, and thereby creating a disturbance in camp; (3) assaulting a sentry while the flatter was in the execution of his duty. Accused pleaded guilty to one and two. but said he had had no opportunity of obtaining th R evidence of a witness who had returned to Canterbury on the third charge. The latter charge was withdrawn, and accused was sentenced to fourteen days' military detention at Ripa Island.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 69, 22 March 1915, Page 6
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