WOULD-BE DESERTER
GETS ELEVEN MONTHS. Fr6Bß Association. AUCKLAND, April U. At tho Police Court to-day, Thomas McGhee, a reservist, was sentenced to cloven months’ imprisonment for attempting to leave the Dominion without a permit, tho sentence to be concurrent with that imposed recently by court-martial for deserting from tho reserve. . William Ennis, boatswain of the overseas steamer on which McGhoo was secreted, was convicted of assisting in tho attmept. As ho had already been gaoled for six weeks, a further six weeks was imposed. _ A coloured man, named Lopez, convicted of assisting, also had been In gaol for six weeks. Ho was sentenced to fourteen days.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9632, 12 April 1917, Page 5
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