MARITZ TREASON TRIAL
SENTENCE OF THE COURT
THREE YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPETOWN, April 23. Maritz, for high treason, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, without hard labour, by the special court which consisted of three judges under the presidency of Mr Justice Gardiner. Maritz pleaded guilty. The President said the court believed that lha accused, went into the rebellian actuated by a desire to secure the independence of South Africa; but, having that desire, Maritz should not have accepted a position in the Defence Force. Mr Justice Gardiner described as the most serious feature of the case the accused’s acts in persuading young men in the Defence Force under his command to rebel, and the handing over of loyalists to the Germans. The court considered that, though a. stern example was necessary in time of war, peace now reigned, further, the accused had sniftered through years of exile from his country while his fellow-offenders were released after a comparatively short imprisonment.—Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19156, 26 April 1924, Page 9
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