AUCKLAND.
This day Broaching Cargo. U
At the Police Court yesterday before R.-C. Barstow, Esq.,R.M., JohnScbwon, William Bergen, Alfred Clemmitts, Chas. Jausen, Chas. Boss, George Tusten, Martin Landy and Henry Pittam, on remand, were again brought up under the Shipping and Seaman's Act, charged with
broaching cargo on board the British ship Chili, the property of Captain Pitfield, in the month of May, on the high seas.
The prisoners pleaded not guilty. Mr Tyler said he bad already ascertained that cargo to the amount of £52 had been abstracted from the stores of the vessel. Ho also pointed out the recklessness of the seamen who were concerned in the robbery, especially in one instance where a candle was allowed to burn out close to a large quantity of gunpowder. He hoped, therefore, if the charges should be proved against the sailors, that the Court would inflict the severest punishment the law would allow.
The case against Bergen was remanded until Wednesday.
After hearing evidence the Court sentenced all the prisoners, with the exception of Pittam and Tusten, to 12 months imprisonment with bard labor.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3596, 6 July 1880, Page 2
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184AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3596, 6 July 1880, Page 2
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