SAILOR'S SENSATIONAL STORY
A PAGE OF ROMANCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Saturday. In the Supreme Court to-day the Chief Justice referred to the allegations of cruelty made by Olaf Aanensen, a Norwegian sailor on the German barque Martha Boekhahn in New Zealand waters. Olaf stated that he was hung up by the heels and ill-treated in various ways, so that he preferred gaol to going back. On a charge of escaping from custody while detained on a charge of desertion, he was imprisoned for five weeks until the ship left. Enquiry has been made through the German Consul, and the police evidence emphatically contradicts the man's assertions, and adds that Aanensen was under the influence of liquor. Sir Robert Stout said he was glad to have these statements. His experience was that Germans were not cruel. Had there been any trouble he knew the German authorities would have remedied it.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 178, 7 November 1910, Page 6
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150SAILOR'S SENSATIONAL STORY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 178, 7 November 1910, Page 6
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