STOWAWAYS IN COURT
RETURNED FROM AMERICA (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Saturday. Two men who stowed away on an American tanker at Wellington last month and were returned from the United States pleaded guilty in Court to-day to a charge of stowing away and were convicted and discharged. They were Alfred Kaye, aged 27, tailor, whom the police said was a deserter from a New Zealand military camp, and George Thomas Shelley, aged 18, a seaman, said to have missed the English ship on which he was a member of a gun crew. The police said the military authorities would return Kaye to camp and would employ Shelley until a job could be found for him on another ship. Shelley could not be punished by the military authorities as he was not under New Zealand military law. On the voyage back from the United States he cut adrift from the ship a liferaft valued at 500 dollars, but as that was on an American ship on the high seas he could not be dealt with in New Zealand.
Shelley said he would like to get back to England to face a courtmartial there. He missed his ship originally because of drink, which he was not used to.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1942, Page 6
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204STOWAWAYS IN COURT Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1942, Page 6
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