INCIDENT ON STEAMER.
CAPTAIN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT. CASE DISMISSED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 2, 5.5 p.m. London, March 31. Captain Avern, master of the Moreton Bay, was charged at Bow Street with assaulting Bums, a member of the replaced British crew. Burns alleged that Avern called him. to his cabin and accused him of causing trouble, and then assaulted him. Burns said he was later imprisoned, but escaped. He alleged that Avern, armed with a revolver and accompanied by the officers, violently re-arrested him, bound him with a rope and confined him in the hole under the isolation hospital. Avern stated that the passengers complained of the British crew’s conduct. Burns adopted a threatening attitude, :.nd he struck Burns because the latter threatened to strike him. Captain Avern continued: Burns had to be roped when re-arrested, because he kicked and bit. He (Avern) acted throughout in the interests of the passengers and the maintenance of discipline. The magistrate said the whole question was whether overmuch violence was used in re-arresting Burns. There were some reasons for regarding the latter as dangerous. The case was dismissed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1922, Page 5
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186INCIDENT ON STEAMER. Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1922, Page 5
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