Charge Fails For Unusual Reason
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WELLINGTON, Feb. 18. . Alleged to be one of 25 men who left the Atlantis before she sailed from Wellington on Monday after a delay of 32 pours awaiting replacements, Morris Marcovitch, 23, seaman, appeared in the Magistrate's Court today charged with -desertion from the Atlantis. * - : A police constable said he arrested accused on a warrant yesterday-. Accused had told him that he left the ship last Friday because he wanted to make a fresh start in New Zealand. Cross-examined by counsel for accused, the constable admitted that he unintentionally omitted tO| give accused the usua'l warningi before questioning him. "I regret that I have to dismiss the charge," said the magistrate, Mr. A. M. Goulding. "The con-' stable, by a - pure oversiglit, omitted to warn accused, and unfortunately his evidenc.e, whieh is the only evidence of identity, . is consequently ina'dmissible." The information was accordingly dismissed. ,
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 February 1948, Page 5
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