SOLDIER SENTENCED
MOTHER’S PLEA IN COURT - . r : . ■' f f ' The refusal of a soldier to undergo an operation caused a charge to be laid against him when he appeared before Mr. J. Miller, SMi, in "Napier He was Patrick John Downey.'- "He was sentenced .to a month’s irn'prisoriment and ordered to be removed to the Wellington’ area. The court was startled by defendant’s mother rushing in and making a plea to give her son another chance. ■ The magistrate asked the police to remove her, but she took up a defensive attitude at the side of the witness box a'ncl 'it was "not until the defendant appealed 'to' her that she allowed herself to be escorted to th rear of the I 'courtroom.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20827, 4 July 1942, Page 2
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122SOLDIER SENTENCED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20827, 4 July 1942, Page 2
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