FIREMAN “RUNS AMOK”
ASSAULTS SHIP’S OFFICERS HITS ANYTHING IN UNIFORM WELLINGTON, To-day. Following a spree ashore, Charles Henry Bowyer, a fireman, aged 21 years, returned to the oversea steamer Bahia very drunk, and assaulted an apprentice and the second officer. Thereafter he appears to have “run amok” generally and assaulted four officers in turn, and anyone else in uniform he found about the* decks. He also wrecked the galley. When charged to-day a penalty was asked that would preclude his return to the ship, where he is no longer wanted.
Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., was deaf' to counsel’s plea that the man belonged to the Home country and might be stranded. He considered he should-dis-countenance defiance of officers and sentenced Bowyer to six weeks’ imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 13
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