TERRITORIALS IN TROUBLE PUNISHMENT FOR SHIRKING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1914, Page 8

TERRITORIALS IN TROUBLE PUNISHMENT FOR SHIRKING.

Failure to render personal service in the shape of attendance at drill led to a large number of Territorials being brought before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M. ; to-day. Walter ' Whittington was convicted and fined £2 with costs 7s, the alternative being fixed at three days' military detention, and fines of £1 and costs, with a similar option, were imposed on John James Sullivan, William Thomas Sullivan, Cutbert Hill, and William C. O'Connor. Fines of 10s and costs were imposed on Henry George Johns, John Alexander Leggatt, David Smith (two charges), Harold William Hardie, Joseph Arthur Mears, Ernest Buchanan, Edwin Glavin, James Grant, Albert Roberte, John Clayton, and Orion Victor Lattimore. Penalty for default in each case was fixed at 48 hours' military detention. The following were fined 5s and costs with the alternative of 48 hours' milK taiy detention : — Alexander Grant, Victor Arthur Johnson, Edward Leary, Donald' M. Whittington, William N. Crawford, John Houston, Peter Dalrymple Holmes, Thomas Findlay, and Frederick Cecil V. Low. William Arthur F. Hall and Roger John Harris were convicted and ordered to pay Court costs ; and Albert Bowden, Richard Alexander Robertson, and Charles William Rivers were convicted { and discharged. j Joseph Henry Hardgrave was convicted and ordered to pay Court costs for obstructing drill at Johnsonville. Penalty for default was fixed at 48 hours' military detention. Sergeant-Majors C. A. Smith, Wood- j ward, Corkhillj and White prosecuted op behalf of the Defence Department.