TRIAL OF AMERICAN SEAMAN
FOUND GUILTY OF ASSAULT [Pee United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, February 12. The trial of the American seaman, James Gannon, on a charge of attempted murder and on alternative charges arising from an affray on the steamer Golden Gate at Auckland on October 28 last was concluded in the Supreme Court before Mr Justice Fair yesterday afternoon, when the accused was found guilty on one qf the alternative charges—namely, assault so as to cause actual bodily harm. The evidence showed that an altercation occurred and that Gannon struck a fellow seaman and then dropped him from the top of a stack of timber to the hatch. The injured man was in a critical condition for some days. Gannon was remanded for sentence.
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Evening Star, Issue 22571, 12 February 1937, Page 8
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125TRIAL OF AMERICAN SEAMAN Evening Star, Issue 22571, 12 February 1937, Page 8
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