THE THACKER ENQUIRY

Thames Star, Volume LVIV, Issue 18497, 15 January 1918, Page 2

THE THACKER ENQUIRY

CHRiSTCHXJRCH, Jan. 15 ' At the .Court of enquiry convened' * to investigate charges by Dr* Thacker against the military medical officers, the case: of Bugler Burrows was called 1. He detailed particulars of hie case', complaining that he was put/in a detention cell aild treated,ae a criminal because he consulted Dr. Thacker in relation:, to the evidence given. , Burrows was l-feieasedi fromt >m|ilitiairy dabentiori' on I^ieut.-Colioiietßi MacOibboJi'ia order, and watei »ot msult«d by Lieut.-Col. Mac Gibbon. . Dr. Thaciker was proceeding! to qiiestion th« witness ac to ■ whether the detention cell was not a- harness room, when the president "of the court intervened. "I give .you fair warningl," he eaid to Dr. Thacker. "I; will; close the enquiry if you> go> on with questions regarding the detention cell. You are doing nothing but acting a piece of buffoonery. Toui are eimply playing to the gallery." Lieut.-Colonel Mac Gibbon deposed that he never insulted Burrow® nor threatened him with solitary" confinement. He may have told him no* to visit Dr. Thacker, which be was perfectly justified in doing.— Press Association.