TERRITORIAL IN TROUBLE
FOURTEEN DAYS* DETECTION. (Peb United Piiess Association.) GREYMOUTH, March 22. Private Gibbons, who had been kept in police custody from Monday till Friday last, -was court-martialled at' Totara Flat camp on Saturday, and charged with—(l) Absenting himself from camp without leave; (2) breaking away from the mili-. tary police when 'under arrest, thereby creating a disturbance in camp ; (3) assaultinga sentry while the latter was in the execution of duty. Accused pleaded guiltv to charges Nos. 1 and 2. There' was no opportunity of obtaining the evidence of the principal witness (who had returned to Canterbury) on the third charge, and it. was withdrawn. Gibbons was sentenced to 14 days' military detention at Ripa Island.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16339, 23 March 1915, Page 7
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118TERRITORIAL IN TROUBLE Otago Daily Times, Issue 16339, 23 March 1915, Page 7
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