TWO ENGINEERS ASSAULTED

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23366, 27 June 1941, Page 10

TWO ENGINEERS ASSAULTED

SHIP’S FIREMAN SENT I 1 TO GAOL H r'itLA tn'i (P.A.) AUCKIASI^^& A ship’s fireman, CU #s aged 27. pleaded guilty iT^AMagh^ trate’s Court when prosevaftThy tbe£ master of a British to' assaulting the second ahd sixth eigfe gineers while the vessel was on. th|| high seas, and in a danger zone. i-:‘, Prosecuting counsel, Mr Allan* Moody said Plum signed on at New* port. One day in' May the second «p girieer told Plum he was not slicinfeg the fires properly. Plum refused Mil make the fires when ordered, andmadfc; use of an obscene expression. He aU-‘ tacked the second engineer with a hot slice, and opened all the furnace, doors and refused to shut them whebNi ordered by the sixth engineer, with i the result that the ship’s speed was tarded. Twelve days later, when the.:; sixth engineer was instructing Plunj | how to carry on the work, Plum the furnace doors, and used abusive' s : language, striking the sixth engineer:: with his fists and kicking him. Later§ he threatened to kill him. •, Asked by the Magistrate (Mr F.Jt.e! Hunt) if he had anything to say, Plunjil said he always did his job properly.-,;.; “Well it doesn’t look like it,” said : the Magistrate, sentencing Plum to 12.. weeks’ imprisonment on the first; - charge, and ordered him to pay cost* on the second. “We don’t want hihj- ‘ in this country, he will have to jr,* back,” added the Magistrate.