SAILORS SENTENCED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1943, Page 2

SAILORS SENTENCED

SERIES OF CRIMES INCLUDING .ROBBERY UNDER 'ARMS (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. December 30. Tried on December 14 by general court-martial at the headquarters of the commanding officer, United States Naval Operating Base, Auckland, and found guilty, two United States sailors were sentenced today to 10 yeais imprisonment on Mare Island, California, for offences of absence from station and duty without leave, theft (five charges), robbery (two charges) and housebreaking (four charges) at various places in the North Island, lhe prisoners were George B. Waller, ship fitter (third class) and Eugene W. Perry, seaman (first class), both United States Naval Reserve.

i Two New Zealanders, Cdlin Davis Jarvis, aged 18, seaman, and Edwin James Jarvis, aged 23, boot repairer, are to stand trial at the Supreme Court, Auckland, on a charge associated with the offences of which Waller and Perry have been found guilty. Among the crimes for which the Americans have been sentenced were two cases of robbery of Chinese at revolver point. 1 The four charges against United States seamen were divided into more than 10 counts, most of which related to the conversion of two motor-cars, the robbery of two Chinese and the breaking and entering of two petrol stations and two dry-cleaning establishments. Each man was ordered to be reduced to the rating of apprentice seaman, and after serving the sentence of 10 years, dishonourably discharged. They are also to suffer all the other duly prescribed accessories of the sentence which include hard labour,, deprival for ilife of American citizenship and stoppage of regular navy pay.