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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 February 1916, Page 3

Tlie story circulated in New Zealand sonic time ago to the effect that an Australian soldier was shot in the trenches at Gallipoli by one of his officers for shortening a time fuse and being possessed of papers indicating that he was a spy, is denied by Trooper R. J. Gray, of the First Australian Expeditionary Force. Writing to the '•New Zealand Herald," he states that he knew the man in question well. The latter, he says, was a New Zealand N.C.0., serving with the Australian forces. He also went with the writer through the South African war. The story that he had been shot was incorrect. On the contrary, the man had been promoted to the rank of a first lieutenant and was in the hospital at Alexandria when the writer saw him last. Trooper Cray states that he was in a better position than the man who was responsible for the report to ascertain the truth, and in fairness to the Australians he desires that the report be contradicted.

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Most unusual was the story about a prisoner in khaki who appeared in the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, on Monday. Thomas Carroll was his name, and lie escaped from the Waikeria Prison Farm, in the Waikato, on September 30 last. Later, he enlisted, and now he was back again in ih'o hands of the police. It was admitted that while at Waikeria he had conducted himself well. "You were a fool to break out of that camp," said the Magistrate, whose remarks indicated that he had a favorable opinion of the conditions there. Carroll: "Well, your Worship, I cleared out with the intention of getting on the clothes I am wearing now." He added that he had petitioned to be allowed to go to the war; that he had fought for Queen Victoria and King Edward, and was willing to fhdit for King George; and that while waiting to go into camp he had lived honestly by hard work. The Magistrate considered it a, laudable idea to want to go to the Avar, but said that Carroll had broken the law and must be punished. The penalty was one month's imprisonment.