YOUNG DESERTER
MAGISTRATE'S LENIENCY
"I agree that there is quite an epidemic of desertions, but I don't want to send a boy of 17 to gaol, especially when he is a British subject," said Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's1 Court today, when John Leslie Jones, steward's boy, pleaded guilty to deserting from the Trojan Star. Mr. Mosley said that the problem was one of considerable difficulty. In view, however, of the defendant's youth and his willingness to accept a position that had been offered him on a farm in the couhti-y, he would be convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on 'within six months.
When Jones was ordered to pay 12s costs, he said that his only money was 2s. He was given 21 days to pay.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 128, 1 June 1937, Page 11
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134YOUNG DESERTER Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 128, 1 June 1937, Page 11
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