LOCKED IN HIS CABIN
SHIP'S CAPTAIN SENT TO PRISON FOR BEING DRUNK.
A charge of being drunk in his ship on September 7 and impeding the navigation of the vessel on the high seas was brought at_ Plymouth recently against James Richardson, a steamship captain. It was alleged that while tho ship was at a foreign port the master came on board in a drunken condition. After an attempt to take charge of the ship ho was placed under arrest, and locked in'his cabin. The captain said it was all a falsehood. Fivo weeks ago he was torpedoed, and the samo firm gave him his present ship two days after. Tho officers wanted to get him out of tho ship and tako his place. The Magistrate® inflicted a fine of £50 and a sentence- of threo months' imprisonment. ,
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 58, 1 December 1917, Page 15
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138LOCKED IN HIS CABIN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 58, 1 December 1917, Page 15
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