SWAPPED CLOTHES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 197, 20 August 1943, Page 4

SWAPPED CLOTHES

YOUTH AND SAILOR

POLICE COURT SEQUEL

The sequel to the swapping of clothes by a youth of 17 and an American sailor yesterday was the appearance of the former in the Police Court this morning on charges of committing a breach ot his release on probation and unlawfully wearing the uniform of the United States naval forces. A seaman. Raymond Skeene Jenkins, the defendant, for whom Mr. Noble appeared, pleaded guilty. Jenkins said Sub-Inspector Joyce was at present on license from the Borstal. Yesterday he met an American sailor at Takapuna and the two decided to change clothes. "Jenkins says it was the sailor s idea, the sailor telling him that he wanted to know what his girl friend would think of him in 'civvies, added Mr. Joyce. "The tAvo exchanged clothes, and Jenkins came over to town in the sailor's uniform. He was picked up by the American shore patrol and handed over to the police. I think the whole thing was just a silly prank." tl „-„„ Mr Noble said there was nothing sinister in what Jenkins did. Jenkins loved the sea and was at present waiting to sign on a ship. Since being on license he had behaved himself well. . "I won't treat it as a serious matter " said the magistrate, in convicting and discharging Jenkins.