MARITZ SENTENCED.
THREE YEARS IN PRISON
CAPETOWN, April 23.—Colonef S. G. Maa'itz was sentenced to three years' imprisonment without. Ihaj'd labor, for treason, by a .special Court of three Judges milder the presidency of Judge Gardiner. Maritz ha'di pleaded guilty. The president said that the Court believed the accused had gone into ircbdllion, actuated by a desire to secure independence for South Africa, but having that desire (he should mat have accepted a, position in the defence force. Judge Gardiner described, as the mast serious feature of the case, the accused's persuading young men of the defence force undeir nis command to rebel, and handing over loyalists to the Germans. The Court, he said, considered that t'houglh a stern, example was necessary in time of war, peace now reigmed, and the accused irad suffered through yealrs of exile from his country while fellow offenders had been released after a comparatively sliort term of imprisonmemC
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16425, 8 May 1924, Page 6
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