OFFENDING TERRITORIALS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 61, 5 November 1912, Page 8

OFFENDING TERRITORIALS

INTERRUPTION OF PARADES. (Per Press Association.) Hamilton, November 4. Before Mr Louglman, S.M., at Hamilton to-day, John Christian Emerson and Arthur Raynor Lowe (cadets) were charged with interrupting parades of senior cadets by repeatedly humping cadets on either side of them. Sergeant-Major West prosecuted. He said that Emerson had boon very troublesome on this particular night by humping cadets. He was warned as to his behaviour, but continued to bump, and was ordered to fall out and told bo would be proceeded against. Accused pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s and 7s costs. Lowe also pleaded guilty, and was fined a similar amount. A charge of interrupting a parade of senior cadets by driving a motorcar into a horse bazaar where the cadets were at drill was brought against Leslie James Robert Gurnell (also a cadet). Mr West said that the defendant had been warned previously. On this particular night he drove into the bazaar as from ten to fifteen miles an hour, running his car so close to the company that West had to hastily remove himself to avert an ace’dent. The act was wilful and wanton.

Donald Gerald Dixon, second lieutenant of the sth Company, corroborated this evidence, adding that Gurnell need not have driven among,the cadets at all.

A fiuq of 10s and costs was imposed, Kis Worship remarking that there appeared to be an impression abroad amongst certain sections that tbo> could do anything they liked to interfere with drills. He wished to correct this impression. Further offend ers would be dealt with much more severely. 1 /