The Court-Martial on Colonel Crawley commenced its sittings on the
17th inst., at Aldershot, and the proceedings promise to drag their dreary way over weeks of time and hundreds of pages of type. The President of the Court is Lieutenant-General Sir G. A. Wetherell, K.C.B. ; the prosecutor, Sir A. Horsford, K.C.B. ; the defendant's counsel, Mr. Vernon Harcourt. The accused officer is charged with conduct unbecoming an officer in having caused "the orders under which Serjeant-Major Lilley was con- fined to be carried into effect with unnecessary and undue severity," and for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman in having told a Court-Martial that the severity was Adjutant Fitzsinion's fault. The odd wording of the first charge is intended to admit the issue of superior orders justifying the fact, though not the mode of the close arrest.
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