PASSENGER ROBBED
A HIGH SEAS ,AFFAIR. j ..CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Before Mr Young S.M., at the Lyttelton Magistrate's Court yesterday, Harold Creighton, aged 22, a steward on the Eemuera, was charged with stealing, on or about October 10, between Southampton and Ceylon, four £fi notes and three £1 notes from a woman pasisonger's cabin. The woman had left a money belt in her bunk. The steward took it and threw the belt away. Accused, who pleaded guilty, was convicted and ordered to repay forthwith the £3 not recovered.
The Magistrate said it would not be in the interests of the community or of accused himself to send him to gaol, as his contract required that he would have to be taken back to England.
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Northern Advocate, 10 November 1927, Page 9
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124PASSENGER ROBBED Northern Advocate, 10 November 1927, Page 9
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