Golden Baldwin, aged 35 years, was brought Jefore Mr Cuueu S.M., at Auckland yesterday on a charge that he uttered a siatcrneiit indicating d.sloyalty. Baldwin entered a pica ol guilty. Chici-dctectivc M‘Mahon stated that Baldwin made no response to a telegram fiom the Defence Detriment informing him that he had been drawn in the ballot, and calling on him to suormt himself for medical examination. A constable went to his camp to bring him in for examination, and Baldwin made use of disloyal language, stating that ho would bo a fool to go to the front, and that they were all fools who went to the front. Tbaccused hid a brother at the front, and was a single man. He had been living a lonely life, on the gumliekls for years. Ba'dwin was angry at the time, but‘immediately afterwards was sorry for what he had said. His Worship stated that the case was different from the usual charge of the kind in mat there was no Question of an endeavor to influence other people. The language might be looked on more as, a form of profanity than as a real expression of disloyalty. The punishment would not be made more than .sufficient to act as a warnin''. Baldwin was fined £5. "
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Evening Star, Issue 16350, 16 February 1917, Page 8
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