ARMY DESERTERS SENTENCED
Wellington, This Day. A deserter. Private Spencer Patterson Black, who was arrested in Lyttelton street, Christchurch, after a struggle with three members of the Provost Corps and a police constable, was sentenced to two years’ gaol by a district court-martial at Trentham. When arrested he had £531 in his possession. Black deserted from No. 4 training battalion at Trentham in February, 1942, and was arrested on 9th Novem-* ber, 1945. His excuse was that he left camp because he suffered from a nervous condition; his defending officer described it to the court as a sort of phobia. Private Alfred Robert James Spark.who deserted from a special training cadre at Trentham in December, 1941, and was arrested in Wellington on Bth November, 1945, was sentenced to < two years’ gaol. He attributed his desertion to anxiety for members of his : family for whose support he was responsible. i
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 1 December 1945, Page 5
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