Helped Youth Evade Call-Up
(New Zealand Press Association) BLENHEIM, July 20. Silas Rushworth Martyn, a shop assistant and male nurse, was convicted in the Blenheim Magistrate’s Court yesterday of counselling a 21-year-old youth on how to deceive a medical board so that he could evade military service. Martyn was fined £35 by Mr G. A. Nicholls, S.M.
i Martyn, of Howick road, [through Mr M. D. Hill, pleaded not guilty to the charge, ilt was said in evidence that the youth, Neil Elbert Matthews, now of Christchurch, [but formerly of Weld street, , Blenheim, went to Martyn and ’ obtained a liquid which, when added to his urine during the medical board examination, would indicate the presence of diabetes. Matthews was called by the police. He said that when he was instructed to report for a medical examination for
[National Military Service, he decided he could not afford to go into the Army and to get out of it he went to the defendant’s house and asked him about the Army and how to get out of it before he told him be had been called up. He said Martyn said he could get him out and showed him some liquid he had in his car and said he could probably give him that. The witness said that during the medical examination he gave a sample of his urine and added the liquid which he had taken from the defendant’s car. Later he received a letter to say he was unfit for service but he could not remember the grounds. It said something about his urine and lack of movement in his wrist. He had no knowledge of previous trouble with diabetes.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31117, 21 July 1966, Page 3
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