CONSTANT DESERTER
CONVICTION ALSO FOR THEFT [Pmi United Press Association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, October 18. Twice arrested for absenting himself his ship without leave, Gerald Joseph Condon alius John Stewart MacGregor, aged 17, appeared before Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., to-day. He deserted from the Remuera at Lyttelton and, following his arrest at Christchurch, was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment and placed on board the ship before she left port. Deserting again _at Auckland on July 5, he was not discovered till his arrest at Uruti on September 9. Condon was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for the theft of money from a woman at Uruti, with the provision that he should be placed on the Middlesex at her last port of call before the expiry of the sentence. On the charge of desertion he was convicted and discharged.
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Evening Star, Issue 23092, 19 October 1938, Page 7
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138CONSTANT DESERTER Evening Star, Issue 23092, 19 October 1938, Page 7
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