SEAMEN IN TROUBLE

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 293, 6 September 1932, Page 11

SEAMEN IN TROUBLE

Yesterday’s Police Cases As two seamen belonging to the s.s. Cambridge were returning to the ship on Saturday evening, they .were a trifle noisy and careless in their language on Queen’s Wharf, and a constable, remonstrated with them. One of the men became abusive, and was arrested by the constable who, after depositing his prisoner in the cells at the Central Station, returned to the wharf where the other seaman became insulting, and soon found himself with his messmate in the police cells. These facts wore related to Mr. M. FL ■Woodward, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, when the two seamen, Pat Grant, aged 30, and Alexander Vrey, aged 22, were charged with behaving in’ a disorderly manner on Queen’s Wharf on Saturday night while drunk. The magistrate fined each of them £2, in default three days’ imprisonment, and ordered that they should be placed aboard the ship if she sailed before the expiry of the sentence. Leslie Herbert Howe, alias Brandon, labourer, aged 39, was remanded until September 9, on a charge that, in incurring a debt for 30/- to Mary Swindale for board, he bad obtained credit by fraud. George Harold Bennett, barman, aged 40, was remanded until Friday on a charge of having used the private bar of the Alhambra Hotel for the purposes of betting. Bail was renewed in a personal bond of £25.