CANTEEN SCANDALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15621, 29 May 1914, Page 7

CANTEEN SCANDALS.

SENTENCES ON ACCUSED. DEFENCE OF 'A COLONEL. < ; COMMENTS JBY ' COURT. ; By ; Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. . ; London, May 28. In the canteen scandal cases yesterday, Colonel Whitaker and Archi- . baldMinto (head of the naval and ( military department in the' Lipton , firm) pleaded guilty. ; Colonel Whitaker's defence was that no favour was shown to the : Lipton firm,: and the only moneys : received were in compensation for his visit to Crete. ; The defendant ; read a letter from Colonel Fiennes, representing a firm of Maidstone ; brewers, offering him a free trip, and asking him to use his influence with the colonel in Crete on behalf of their beer. Appeal for Mercy. ' Mr. Justice Darling, in summing up, said it was regrettable that Colonel Fiennes, now Lord Sayc and Selo, whose ancestor put his hand to Magna Charta, should have written such a letter. Colonel Whitaker, in broken accents, said ho was not aware that he was doing wrong. He did it because of his need of money, having two sons at Sandhurst. He threw himself on the Judge's mercy. Mr. : Justice Darling, animadverting on the letter, sternly commented on the decadence shown by the representative of a great family in cadging orders for beer. Colonel Whitaker Removed. ■ Colonel Whitaker was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, while the other military offenders were bound over. Minto .' and Cansfield were fined £500 each, Craig £100, and Laing, Owen, Pegley, and Lynch. £50. Swain was bound over. Colonel Whitaker made a second appeal for clemency, and the Judge ordered his removal from the Court. NAMES OF the defendants. ' The defendants in this case were as follows:— '.';'."-,...•;.":" . IIILITABY. Colonel Charles Whitaker, M.V.0., retired ; Hon. Lieutenant and ■ Quartermaster William James Armstrong, Norfolk Regiment; Sergeant-Major George Petchy Brnnett, West Riding Regiment; Hon. Lieutenant and Quartermaster James Burns, Bth Hussars; Hon. Lieutenant and ■ Quartermaster Thomas Henry Johnson, : Royal Lancaster Regiment; Hon. Lieu- ■ terant and Quartermaster William Kelly, ; Leihster Regiment; Staff-Sergeant Thomas ! Millward, Array Service Corps; Hon. Capi tain and Quartermaster George Edward Mitchell. Devon Regiment; Hon. Captain and Quartermaster Charles Quarrell, Suffolk Regiment. ■ .'■ cmuAX. ■'*•. John Cansfield, general manager and a director of Lipton, Limited ; Archibald Minto, a director, and formerly head of military department of Lipton, Limited ; James "C. '•' Craig, ! general manager of tho military department of Lipton, Limited, in Ireland; Dsniel Lynch, manager of the canteen department. of ' Lipton, Limited, for Ireland ; Arrarow Laing," military manager of the Aldershot department of Lipton, Limited, for about 10 years; Frederick William Owen, an inspector in connection with the Salisbury branch of the military department of Lipton, Limited; Fdward Arthur Pegley, formerly an inspector of the military department of Lipton, Limited, in the Colchester district; Alfred Swain, indoor shorthand cle-rk in military department' of Lipton, Limited. , ===== ■