THEFT OF SILVER
• r SHIP’S STEWARD FINED. SYDNEY, January 31. “He is a good steward, and he was intoxicated at the time. I guess I’ll pay his fine, if I may,” said the master of the American motor-ship City of Dalhart, Captain R. Rose, when Albert Vincent Boston, 23, described as a seaman, appeared at the Central Police Court yesterday charged with having stolen a quantity of silver belonging to the captain. Boston, who pleaded guilty, said that on the previous day he had been intoxicated and not aware of what he was doing. He had stolen the captain’s silver and pawned it. The next morning, when he was sober, he had confessed the theft and led the captain to the pawn shop. The silver was recovered, one of Boston’s shipmates paying the fee for redeeming it. Boston said that he believed he had only a few dollars in pay owing to him, and could not pay the fine. “Anyone can pay his fine,” said Mr. Camphin, S.M. The captain and the steward left the Court together.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1929, Page 7
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