WANTED TO KILL A GERMAN.
A SCAPA FLOW INCIDENT. LONDON, February 11. An extraordinary murder trial ie proceeding in Edinburgh. A bluejacket, named .lames Woblley, is charged with killing a German prisoner named Eversteg aboard the battleship Resolution at Scapa Flow, two days after the scuttling of the German fleet. The accused wae subsequently arrested as a deserter.
A seaman gave evidence that Wool ley said that he was going to kill a German. The witness thought he was joking, but he extracted a cartridge from Woolley's rifle. Another seaman admitted that he knew that a German prisoner had been killed, but he did not report the matter as he had no love for the Germans.
Woolley's father was the first witness for the defence. He said that he lost two sons within a week in the Somme fighting. The accused was only 10 years of a(fe when he joined the navy. He was not the sort of boy to think of violence when in his proper senses.—(A. and N.Z. Cable. I
(Received 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, February 11. A comrade of Wool Icy stated that the latter was drunk at the time of the shooting. After an absence of twenty, minutes the jury returned a verdict of "Not proven." and the accused was discharged.— (A. aJid N.Z. Cable, i
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 37, 12 February 1920, Page 5
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