SEAMEN IN COURT
CHARGED WITH SWEARING AT CONSTABLE DOUBT OF IDENTITY Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. Two seamen. Sydney James, aged 37, and Abraham Read, aged • 25, pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to having used obscene language on the Pipitca Wharf last month. The prosecution alleged that as accused’s ship was moving out from the wharf the two men. who were on the forecastle head, addressed the language to a constable who had arrested one of the crew for drunkenness. The constable had visited the ship when she returned, and had identified the two accused as the men who had used the language. In reply to Mr. O’Halloran, accused’s counsel, the police witness admitted that there were a number of men standing on the deck, but there was sufficient light to enable accused to be picked out as the offenders. Counsel submitted that there must have been some difficulty in distinguishing the men owing to the failing light. Mr. E. Page, S.M., agreed that there was an element of doubt and dismissed the charge.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 351, 11 May 1928, Page 13
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176SEAMEN IN COURT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 351, 11 May 1928, Page 13
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