TAR AND FEATHERS.
VERDICT OP COURT-MARTIAL. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received Sept. 23, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 21. At the court-martial held in connection with the tarring and feathering of a young naval officer at Cambridge in June last the husband. Lieutenant Wright, was found guilty. The court administered a simplu reprimand with no Joss of rank or seniority. [Lieutenant Wright was at the front and his young wife was a V.A.D. at Cambridge. AVright objected to the attentions of the naval officer to his wife and, a.s they did not cease, lie and his brother stripped him and chained him to a tree after giving him a costume of tar and feathers. Tho victim was discovered in the morning.]
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16547, 23 September 1919, Page 3
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119TAR AND FEATHERS. Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16547, 23 September 1919, Page 3
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