A SAILOR'S TRICK.
COURT IMPRISONMENT TO DODGE THE SHIP. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. According to Sergeant Ramsay, it is not an uncommon practice for sailors to come ashore and deliberately commit offences so that they will be arrested and held in custody until after their ship has sailed. A case in point was heard in the Police Court to-day, when Patrick Dwyer was charged with drunkenness, with resisting a constable while in execution of his duty, and damaging the constable's macintosh, and with having used obscene language. Accincd pleaded guilty to all the charges. In giving evidence, Sergeant Ramsay said accused was employed as a seaman on board the Cornwall. Seamen on Home-swing steamers, he said, were not paid off here. The only way they could escape from the vessel was to commit an offence for the purpose of courting arrest, so that the vessel could sail without them. The accused candidly admitted to the Sergeant that he committed the offences with this object in view. Accused was sentenced to three months' imprison-
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 153, 7 October 1910, Page 5
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175A SAILOR'S TRICK. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 153, 7 October 1910, Page 5
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