INSOBRIETY ALLEGED.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 5854, 29 September 1917, Page 4

INSOBRIETY ALLEGED.

i AGAINST MILITARY DOCTOR. Electric Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The court-martial ct Pr.vato Thompson, of Waoiganu-, charged w.th making a false accusation of insobriety against Dr. H.alop, or Featherston camp, was concluded today. Thompson, in his evidence, aauci that when he went before the Medical Board he intendied to ask ai queston, but Captain Hotop asked, “Why ar e you not at the front i’' Witness replied, “Because I am uni fit.” Captain Hotop asked how he knew, and he replied ‘‘By reference ' to the file, in the Records Office.’’ Captain Hotop asked what right hd , had to see the files, and he repi ed . that he had worked in the Reeonls Office and had: handled tin fit’s. [ Thompson said he then asked why he had been boarded. Cap to » Hotop said he did not know, and*even j if he did, Thompson had no right to | know. Thompson insisted that hd had a right to know, and Major Rob--1 ertson gave him the reason. Corporal Walker depose- that when in the board room he thought r Captain Hotop was under the nflu- , enoe of liquor. When asked "* he , would persist in that belief n laoe " of the evidence of thre e doctors that > Captain Hotop was sober and normal, the witness said “No.' Accused’s counsel and the prosecuk tor addressed the Court, which then , closed 1 .