SAILORS' DAY ASHORE
'"The pair of us were drinking together and we started fighting and wrestling and he fell down and hurt himself," was Frank Barra's version of an incident which occurred at the corner of Tarauaki street and Courteiiay place yesterday. Barra, an American seaman, aged 29, was charged before Mr. E. Page, S.M., to-day, with assaulting a shipmate off the Golden Coast, Oswald Ut'baus. He was further charged with stealing a Persian cat, valued at £1.
Evidence was given that while walking along Vivian street about S o'clock Barra picked up the cat from a doorway, and took it to a restaurant where he fed it on oysters and cake. He then said he was going to take it aboard ship. "I think the whole episode was probably a drunken; escapade," commented the Magistrate. Barra was ordered to pay the medical expenses, £1 Is, on the assault charge, and fined £1 and the costs for stealing the eat. Default was fixed at seven days' imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 32, 6 August 1930, Page 5
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SAILORS' DAY ASHORE
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 32, 6 August 1930, Page 5
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