EMPLOYING DESERTERS
SOME PROSECUTIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Stratford,. February 15. . Iwo employers charged with employing deserters were convicted and ordered'to come up for sentenco within three months. In theses cases Mr. Crooke, ♦S.M., made an order in tho form- stated because, he said, the amount of the lowest penalty (£SO) would be altogether too severe under the circumstances.
In a case where Robert Horace Phillips was charged with retaining in his service a son aged 22, 'who was a deserter, and is now serving a sentence of eleven months' imprisonment imposed by a court-martial, the defence was that the son was not in his employ, though' lie' was allowed to remain on tho property of the accused. The son was always a religious objector, and an appeal on this ground having been dismissed, . the father denied responsibility, and the Court held that the evidence was 1 insufficient to convict.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 123, 16 February 1918, Page 7
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