BLAME ON GERMANS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 219, 15 September 1928, Page 2

BLAME ON GERMANS

EX-PRISONER OF WAR OUTBURST OF VIOLENCE Responsibility for an amazing out* burst of violence on the part of an ox-soldier at Salford was laid at the door of the Germans. Patrick Kavanagh. of Pendleton, was confronted with a series of charges at the local court, and his advocate, Mr Gilman Jones, toll the magistrates that the man had served through various campaigns and through the Great War until he was taken prisoner. “He was sent down a mine with four other Englishmen,” continued Mr Jones, “but he refused to work to help the Germans against the British. For refusing to work he was hit over the back of the head with the butt of a rifle by one of the guards. 11% was weeks while he was still suffering from heal injuries.” These hardships, _Mr Jones submittc?!, were the cause of Kavanagh’s violence. Kavanagh was sentenced to one mouth’s imprisonment with hard labour for an assault on a constable, one month for an assault on his wife, and fined £.'» 55., or 25 days’ imprisonment, for damage to a police van, the sentences to run concurrently.