COURT-MARTIAL STORY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 41, 18 February 1943, Page 2

COURT-MARTIAL STORY

RAZOR BLADES IN ROPE

(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. An allegation that the accused had made a device consisting of safety razor blades woven into pieces of rope, which would be fastened to the door of his hut, and would injure anyone trying to open the door, was made at a court-martial at an Air Force station this morning. The accused was L.A.C. Thomas Bradshaw. Bradshaw, who was charged with conduct to the prejudice of good order and Air Force discipline in that he was in possession of the device described, such device having been made with intent to use it so that injury to Air Force personnel might result, pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor said that Bradshaw with another aircraftman was in his hut, and during a conversation accused disclosed that he had made the device with the object of getting even with the adjutant of the station. Accused's idea, said the prosecutor, was to affix the device to the door of the hut and, if the adjutant did come and investigate the hut, as he had previously done, it was possible that the adjutant would have suffered injury. The court's finding will be referred to the Air Department.