UNCLEAN MILITARY BLANKETS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3114, 19 June 1917, Page 6

UNCLEAN MILITARY BLANKETS

i » SYDNEY LAUNDTtY PROPRIETOB 135" ; TROUBLE. Sydney, June 8. At the Central Police Court to-day Philip Henry, laundry proprietor, was committed for trial on the chaise of having falsely pretended to Edward. James De Witt, naymaster of the Second .Military District of the Commonwealth, that 17,901 blankets had been properly washed and were in. a fit condition for issue to military troops, and that 'by means of such false pretence hp did ei>deavour to obtain i>232 10s. 2d., with intent to defraud. Evidence was giveu by Henry Edward Costelloe. corporal in' tho Army Service ; Corps, that out of ewry 100 blankets that came from the laundry witness rejected from (!0 to 65. Twice during; the month witness was at the laundry. He counted the rolls in the stack before .leaving at night, awl on resuming .•work next morning found more rolls than those which he had stacked on the -previous evening. Henry was also committed for I ,trial on the charge of having wilfully and unlawfully destroyed blankets the property of the 'Commonwealth'