A SEAMAN’S QUARREL.
Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Feb. 19
Jacob Michael Harneii was lined Co, with £2 Os costs, at Bluff to-day on a charge of having wounded Andrew Eriidstcn, with intent to do bodily harm. Accused is a Russian Finn, on the Norwegian barque Hermes, and the other mail is stated to he a steward. It was stated that both were drunk, and that a brawl ensued. The .wound was very slight. It w.as pointed out that -accused was an alien, speaking only a few words of English, and the matter would he complicated if lie was kept in gaol till his shita sailed. The Court- therefore acted summarily, the captain undertaking that accused Mould not como ashore again.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2120, 20 February 1908, Page 2
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119A SEAMAN’S QUARREL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2120, 20 February 1908, Page 2
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