NAVAL CADET ACCUSED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 49, 27 February 1935, Page 8

NAVAL CADET ACCUSED.

FAMOUS CASE RECALLED

Tho death of Lieut.-Coloncl Sir Martin Arclior-iShee, D.5.0., in England recently, at the iige of 01, recalls a sensational enso in which a younger brother, George Archcr-Shee, then a uulet at the Naval College, Osborne, was wrongly licensed in 1!) OS of etealing a ">/ postal order from another boy's locker. Tho matter occasioned one of the bitterest legal struggles enacted in the High Court. Mr. Martin Archcr-Shee, of Naileworth, Gloucester, the boy's father, brought a petition of right against tho Crown in respect of tho Admiralty's request for the withdrawal of his son from tho college, and tho proceedings terminated dramatically with an admission of Cadet Archer-Shee'a innocence by the then Solicitor-General (Sir Rufus Isaacs, K.C.).

Subsequently Mr. Reginald McKenna, then First Lord of the Admiralty, made a full and frank apology in the House of Commons for the wrong which had been done the boy, and the Admiralty paid the sum of .€7120 for costs unci by way of compensation.

George Archer-Shec was killed in action in 1014.