DID HE JUMP?
ALLEGED STOWAWAY.
MAN MISSING FROM SHIP. NEW PLYMOUTH MYSTERY. (By Teleaniph—Own Correspondent.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. When officer* \on tlio motor vessel Wnirnrifti, which Arrived at N'ew Plymouth this morninj?, went to a cabin ti> Imnrl over to tho police an alleged •towaway who wan found on board on the way td'Now Zealand from Cairns, Qnpoiislrtnd, lilm man had disappeared. An Immediate search of the ship revealed no trace of him, and it is thought tlint ho made a spectacular jump for freedom from the bout dock of the ship on to the' leg of one of the Hit rbotir Board's oleetria craned' as eoonj M tli(- cnino drew up alongside ;the shift shortly after «ho tied up. Representatives of tho police, who hud born advised nf tho man'* presence, were wnltlng In an ollkur's cabin for him to fop handed over. Arrangements were suhsentitntly made for the Imniio of a warrant for the missing man's arrest.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 12
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160DID HE JUMP? Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 12
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