SERVICE EVADED.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2051, 10 September 1920, Page 8

SERVICE EVADED.

USING A FALSE NAME. Press Association. DUNEDIN, September 10. Arthur Gregory McCarthy was to-day sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for unlawfully using a name other than that, by which he was entered on the military defaulters' list. The defence had been that he had not received notice to parade for examination, and therefore had not evaded any lawful command, and that his name was improperly on the defaulters' list. The Magistrate commented upon accused deliberately evading service and using a false name and leave pass. If counsel's contentions wore correct, ho said, the position was purely Gilbertian, and amounted to this: that the accused performed his obligations by successfully evading them. The Magistrate held that accused came within tho provisions of desertion, as defined in the Act, but, assuming he was not a doserter, his actions brought him within another subsection —"having otherwise made default in the obligations imposed on him." The Magistrate also held that accused's name was properly on tho military defaulters' list.