CARGO PILLAGING

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 50, 27 February 1918, Page 8

CARGO PILLAGING

.'. TWO. 'SEAMEN PENALISED. Another' case of cargo pillaging was brought before Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court to-day, when James O'Neill and William John Budd, members of the crew of a vessel how in port, were charged ' with the theft of a boi of butter, valued at £3 18s. ---' :..■■■'.■. . Thomas Tyrea, Custoniß officer, said that'while he was on duty at the Glasgow Wharf last night he saw three men come off the vessel^ one of them, Budd, carrying a bulky" packet in a, bag. Budd refused to 'say what he was carrying, but said it was not his. O'Neill then claimed, the, package, but . refused to upen it. Witness then took the bag off the box "himself, and as neither of the men "could' give a' satisfactory explanation as to how they came by it, he gave them in charge of a constable. While he waa questioning Budd and O'Neill, the third man walked away. Constable Cosgrove stated that the younger man, Budd, said he 'had been given the. box on board the steamer by a man, whom he did not know, to carry ashore, sad -O'Neill explained away his statement.'to -the) Customs ofTicer that the; butter belonged to him ns'a. joko. The•'Magistrate said-that it was evident that tho men had been thieving. Budd was fir-ed £5 .to be deducted from j his wages," and O'ffeill, who was tin older man and probably fciifiw more of the ■ matter, was .'sentenced to three months' hard labour: ' j