LEFT THEIR SHIP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 197, 22 August 1939, Page 10

LEFT THEIR SHIP.

TWO DESERTERS CAUGHT. OXE SENT TO PRISOX. Arrested yesterday at Matamata on a charge of deserting the ship City of CHasgow at Auckland on July 2!), Redvers Cavell Windle (IS), seaman, and .Tames Henry D'Arcy (!MI), formerly quartermaster in the ship, were brought before .Mr. K. H. Levien. S.M., in the Police Court to-day. when both pleaded guilty. The representative of the shipping, company concerned pointed out that con-] siderable trouble had been canned lately j by men who diverted their ships. D'Arcy j had given considerable trouble while in j the. City of filasgow, and on .Tune 22; lie had been sentenced to one month's ' imprisonment for being absent without' len vc. .j Asked why they deserted. Windle said I conditions on board had not been of the j best, while one of the officer* was not | all that he should have been. D'Arcy eaid condition* on board were bad. "I . tried to get paid oIF in Montreal, but they wouldn't let me." he added. Mt. Levien (to Windle): X expect you i were all you should have been?—l don't i suppose so. D'Arcy said he was working as a machinist in a manure factory and his employer was anxious that he should return to work. I Remarking that D'Arcy had already been punished for being absent without ■ leave and that really only one nee had been committed, .Mr. Levien admitted D'Arcy to IN month*' probation. "There should be some other method of dealing with these offence*," said the magistrate. Windle was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment. ' '