GAOL FOR SEAMEN
CONVERSION OF TRUCK
At 1.15 a.m. today the foreman of a Post and Telegraph Department garage heard a truck being started up in the yard. He looked out and saw two men driving away in it, noted which way they were headed, and, after collecting two constables, followed them in a car, said Sub-Inspector J. Abel in the Magistrate's Court today when prosecuting two seamen off the Dominion Monarch, John Joseph Brady, 20, and Robert Sutch, 22, on a charge of unlawful conversion of the truck. They pleaded guilty.
Mr. Abel stated that the Dominion Monarch left Wellington this morning for Lyttelton, and would leave there tomorrow morning for Australia. "What's going to happen to them?" asked Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M. Mr. Abel said there was not time to place the men aboard.
"Do they want them on board?" asked the Magistrate. "Not particularly," replied Mr. Abel. The Magistrate then sentenced them each to a month's imprisonment with hard labour, adding that they are to be placed on board a ship if one sails in the meantime.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 79, 1 October 1945, Page 8
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181GAOL FOR SEAMEN Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 79, 1 October 1945, Page 8
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