UNRULY SEAMAN
CREATES TROUBLE ON FERRY STEAMER.. Dominion Special Service. Christchurch,. July 27. James Gordon Bennett, a seaman, who ras paid off the Moeraki at Wellington yesterday, and who in company with about a dozen members of tho same ship was returning home to Dunedin by the Maori, got into a brawl on board last night. On arrival, at Lyttelton this morning, while stepping on. to the ferry train, he was arrested. Bennett appeared later at the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court, charged that On July 26, between Wellington and Lyttelton, ho robbed John Robert Scollay* of £lO and »t the same time used personal violence to Scollay. He was further charged with Mealing three cups, valued at Is. 3d. pach, the property of the Union Company. Accused was remanded for. a jreck.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 256, 28 July 1927, Page 11
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