Thirty Days in Irons.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 254, 29 September 1883, Page 2

Thirty Days m Irons.

• C * , (Bi TJELEGRAPH. );,,;, ; ! (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) *A'. A t "pu^Epilsr,rSept. 26. At Port ''Chalmers, '. to«day Thomas Campbell, a" seaman of thp barque Em- : belton, just arrived^ was:, charged with that on the 24th August the accused declined to work,, and, -witness put him m irons. The prisoner then said, " All right ; I will put you 0 . through as soon aa I get out of !this>o;^on ■ may thank God that you have not the right sort of men on boards* Witness con-sidered-this.-to^ mutiny,) and to take his life, and tie . therefore kept him m irons until the end of the . yoyage. The. prisoner, m. i defence, said that'the'reason he refused] iduty was that, the work, was not done' ;when it' should have ( bebn.' He had ibeen kept thirty days m irons, and his (Chains were never' removed, although !he was 43, years old, and they, were the j hardest thirty days-of. his . life. He ! was^ treateci worses than ; a . , dog , .or .$ '■ Gh'ihaman. The Bench considered the 1 charge clearly proved,; as .the , pri,spne_r.. had no rigHt, tp refuse, a kwful order, j Under ordinary circumstances he would .have been sent to gaol for four, weeks,;, but as he had, been, kept a -prisoner for that time he. would be convicted and, discharged. , , r; ... -A. V