12 YEARS FOR SABOTAGE
SEAMAN SENTENCED AT SYDNEY Sydney, July lfl. An Australian Navy court-martial today sentenced Ordinary Seaman Andrew Gordon Kilpatrick, aged 25. to 12 years’ penal servitude. Kilpatrick had been found guilty on 10 charges, the offences having occurred on an Australian warship on various dates from 4th April to Bth May. The charges included maliciously throwing two handgrenades into the ship’s motor-boat and damaging it; having in his possession hand-grenades with intent to injure certain members of the ship’s company; writing and sending an anonymous threatening letter to the wardroom: maliciously casting adrift a whaler: throwing overboard a dinghy; and stealing 14 dozen bottles of beer and 17 bottles of whisky. Anonymous notes crudely printed and signed “the Gohst” were shown to the Court. It was stated in evidence that accused when asked to write the word ••Ghost” had written "Gohst.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 21 July 1944, Page 1
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