DISLOYAL UTTERANCE
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, February 14. A man named Golden Baldwin, 35 Tears of age, was brought before Mr. Cutten, S.M., this morning, on a charge that he published a stat'emeut indicating- disloyalty. Baldwin entered a plea of guilty. Detective M'Mahon stated that Baldwin had made no response to a telegram from the" Defence Department informing him that he had been drawn in the ballot, and calling on liim to submit himself for medical examination. Consequently a constable went to his camp to bring him in for examination, and Baldwin made use of disloyal language, stating tljat lie "would 1 be a fool'to go to the front," and '-They' were all fools that went to the front." Accused liad a brother at the front, and was himself a single man, and had been living a lonely'life \on the gumfields for years. . , Baldwin said that,/lie was angry at the time, but immediately afterwards he was'sorry for what he . had said. His "Worship stated that the case was different from the usual charge of the kind, in that there was no question of an endeavour to influence other people. The .language might be looked on more as a form of profanity than a real expression of disloyalty. • Tho punishment' would not be made more than sufficient to act as a warning. Baldwin was fined £5.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3006, 17 February 1917, Page 12
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225DISLOYAL UTTERANCE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3006, 17 February 1917, Page 12
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