PRIVATE MOULD’S DISAPPEARANCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1506, 10 April 1919, Page 6

PRIVATE MOULD’S DISAPPEARANCE.

(Per Press Association.! | DUNEDIN. April 9. Tho military inquiry into tlio circumstances attendant upon the disappearance of Private George Mould was concluded today. Evidence as given by Capt. Cameron, of the Maori, was read. It stated that lie had no direct knowledge of Mould’s disappearance and no report of it was made to him during the-trip. Tho evidence of Munn, the Maori’s purser, was also road. Ho also said no report was made to him on tho night of tho 3rd or 4th of February that Mould had jumped overboard. Tho only new witness was John Campbell McGill, a returned soldier. Ho said ho and Mould were in the same cabin. Witness, after turning in, did not see Mould again. Ho reported his disappearance in tho morning. Tho Court, after retirement, found that Mould had disappeared during tho voyage of the Maori at a time when ho was physically and morally capable of looking after himself, and that no officer, non-com., or soldier was directly or indirectly guilty of neglect of duty. In tho evidence of the captain and tho purser of the Maori, the disappearance of Burns on tho previous trip was referred to ns having boon reported and each of tlicso witnesses spoke of him 'as a boy named J. Burns. Tho previous initial mentioned at tho inquiry was B Burns.