GENERAL’S CAP
Theft Charge Dismissed (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 18. The most sinister aspect of the removal of United States Marine Corps General Hamilton H. Howe’s cap by a Victoria University student was its mutilation and return to the United States Embassy with an obscene note, Mr R. D. Jamieson, S.M., said today. Before the Court was William Tom McLeod Alexander, aged 20, a student, who pleaded not guilty to stealing the general’s cap, valued at £7, from the Student Union building at Victoria. Dismissing the charge the Magistrate said it had not been proved that Alexander intended to deprive the general of his cap permanently, that he intended it to be returned in a mutilated condition or that he was!a party to such actions as would render it mutilated. “But this case should not be an encouragement to other students to trifle with the law and hope for special treatment because of their status as students,” said the Magistrate. He said he was dismissing the charge for no other reason than that there were reasonable doubts.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30471, 19 June 1964, Page 3
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