Wearing the hospital blue uniform and looking very pale and ill, Alfred Young, a Luton man belonging to the Hertfordshire Yeomanry, was brought up before Mr Hugh Cumberland at the police station on Friday [June 30th, 1916] and, when charged with being an absentee from the Yeomanry, he replied: "No, not from there, but from Tottenham Hospital".

From Sgt Matsell's evidence, it appeared that information was received by the Luton police that Young had escaped from an escort and, calling round at his house at 118 Langley Street, the sergeant found him in bed, and arrested him.

The man denied that he got away from the escort and alleged it was the escort who left him standing at the bottom of St Pancras station steps. He had been walking about for two-and-a-half hours, he said, and was hardly fit to find his way across Luton alone.

"That sounds possible," observed the Magistrates' Clerk. "We have had such things happen before, where the escort wanted more looking after than the prisoner." (laughter).

It was remarked that the man was not looking at all well, and he said he would like to see a doctor as his heart was not right by a long, long way. He had two medical certificates to that effect in his pocket.

The Clerk remarked that by the appearance of the man it did not look as if he needed an escort, but Mr Cumberland remanded him in custody to await the arrival of another one.

[The Luton Report: Monday, July 3td, 1916]