A GERMAN PRISONER OF WAR.
ASSAULT ON MOTUIHI ISLAND.-' • ' 'tit*- 1 ' ~~ (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELWSBAM.) AUCKLAND, May 53. At the Supreme Court to-day Frite Schumaikuche, formerly a planter *i - Samoa, was charged with assaulting Franz Volkmer, a fellow-prisoner Motuihi. causing him bodily harm. The prisoner admitted strikingVoli* mer, but raised the question Court's jurisdiction, claiming tl»t;J® • was a prisoner of war. ' Mr Justice Stringer said he pared to refer the point to the Court, but he would try the prison?* meantime. , The jury returnod a verdict » . "Guilty.*' ' Prisoner complained, about his deten* tion in Mount Eden Gaol for six weeMi - owing to his being unable to> amugje bail. Ho had to associate with mmi- > nals. and had suffered owing to h« Da ii° n vfew y 'of the prisoner's deten«o« in gaol no sentence was imowod, ana accused made no farther reference the Court's jurisdiction.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16220, 24 May 1918, Page 8
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