THEFT OF STORES ON THE WHAKATANE.
A COOK SENTENCED. [United Press Association.] DUNEDIN, Wednesday. At the Police Court this morning John Learney, a ship's cook on the Whakatane, * was sentenced to two months' imprisonment on a charge of entering a storeroom on the steamer and taking 12 bottles of stout. It was stated that 13 rase* were missing from the stoics. Suspicion* had been aroused owing to a number of men being observed under the influence of liquor. Thereupon the fourth inato and the chief steward Ird themselves in tho storeroom and caught the accused redhanded. The accui-od asked why the officer and the steward hod fired at him ill the storeroom, to which the steward replied that they had fired blank cartrigdes to frighten him, as he was dangerous when under the influence of liquor.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 27 January 1909, Page 3
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136THEFT OF STORES ON THE WHAKATANE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 27 January 1909, Page 3
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