INQUIRY RE MISSING SOLDIER.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15044, 11 April 1919, Page 6

INQUIRY RE MISSING SOLDIER.

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- v • Dunedin, April 10. The military inquiry "into the circumstances regarding the disappearance of Private George Mould was" concluded to-day." The evidence was, read of Captain1 Cameron, of the Maori, who said he had no direct knowledge of Mould's disappearance. No report of it ..was made to him'during,the trip. The"evidence of- Munn .the Maori's purser, was also read. He also said that, no report was made to him on the nights of j February 3rd and 4th that Mould had jumped overboard. The only new witness was John Campbell McGill, a returned' soldier. He said he and-Mould were in the same cabin. Witness, after turning in, i not see Mould again. He reported T;he i disappearance in the morning. I The Court, after a retirement, found that Mould had disappeared during the time he was physically and mentally copable of looking after himself, and that no"'officer, non-com., or soldier was directly or indirectly guilty of neglect, of duty. In the evidence of the captain anJ the purser of the Maori, the -iis'ippp;irance of Burns, on a previous trip, was referred to as having been reported, a^ic! each of these witnesses spoke of him as a boy named J. Burns. The previous initial mentioned at the inquiry was "B."