PILLAGING CARGO.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 October 1922, Page 5

PILLAGING CARGO.

* SEAMEN SENTENCED

(feY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 11. William Benjamin McDonald, Richard McOvoy, and Herbert Samuel B. Dutton, members of the Mania's crew, were charged at the Police Court with the theft at sea of 16 bottles of whisky from the cargo. McDonald was senfenced to three months' imprisonment, McOvoy to two months, and Dutton to two months, and a similar sentence (to be cumulative) was imposed on a second charge of the theft of 12 bottles. Accused were ordered to pay for the whisky.