Quaker Court-Martialled
IN NO SENSE A SOLDIER, [Per Press Association.! . AUCKLAND, Last Night. Private Egorton Gill was court-raar-tialled to-day for wilful disobedience of an order given by his superior officer, to parade for medical examination. Accused refused to plead. He claimed he was in no sense a soldier., as the power claimed under the Military Service Act, as far as sending soldiers out of Now Zealand was concerned, was not within the range of the Constitution. Ho said he would submit no legal defence as such. He claimed that a J a trial entailing the possibility of a sentence of hard labour he was entitled to a jury. A verdict of guilty was given, and sentence will be promulgated later.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13947, 27 July 1918, Page 5
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120Quaker Court-Martialled Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13947, 27 July 1918, Page 5
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