EVADING MILITARY SERVICE Before Messrs. W. (in the chair) and J. M. H. Francis, at the Kingston County Bench on Wednesday.

Joseph Carey (19), flower seller. Queen’s-road, Mitcham, was charged with being absentee under the Military Service Act.

—P.S. Nash said he found prisoner working in field at Field Common Farm, Horsham, and subsequently ascertained he ought to have reported himself under the Military Service Act at Wimbledon on July 3rd.

—Capt. Wyatt said that inquiries at Wimbledon and Mitcham had failed to trace the man, and, but for the police finding him working in a field, the military might not have heard of him.

—Fined £2, and handed over to an escort.

Source: Surrey Advertiser – Saturday 16 September 1916 from the British Newspaper Archive (subscription required)