THE DARWIN ENQUIRY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12010, 11 March 1920, Page 8

THE DARWIN ENQUIRY.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received March 11, noon Melbourne, March 11 Before ' the Northern Territory Commission, Private Rheinberg said he was imprisoned in Fanny Bay gaol for sixteen months for debt without any court proceedings, being arrested while on his way to enlist. He further said that when the recruiting campaign started, Dr. Gilruth went to the Defence Department and had it stopped While in gaol he once refused to enter a cell and the warder drew a revolver and ordered"J|the guard to shoot prisoner. Concluding witness stated that Jail the other prisoners in gaol for debt were men who tried to enlist.

A former manager of the Terminus Hotel at Darwin gave evidence that he saw “a drunken policeman with a revolver make a number of people stand in a line against a wall and no action was taken by the authorities.