SLEEPING ON DUTY.
HEAVY SENTENCE ON A SOLDIER. MEDIEVAL TORTURE. The son of a well-known cotton merchant, who was doing his year's voluntary military service in a cavalry regiment, being overcome by the heat at Vienna, was caught napping by a passing sentry. Although he woke up at once and answered the salute, he was reported and courb-martiadied. • VFhe proceedings lasted several weeks, during which time h« -was kept in close confinement and not allowed to see his friends. It came out in evidence that he could not have been asleep more than three minutes, yet he was sentenced to six weeks' solitary confieniaent, with one fast-day every week, and to be chained hand) and 1 foot every second 1 week. The sentence has caused the greatest consternation in Vienna.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7203, 14 September 1901, Page 4
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