FIREMAN SENT TO PRISON
STEALS A MATE’S CLOTHING. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, October 20. William Edward Melton (26). a fireman on the Mararoa. was charged at the Police Court to-day with stealing clothes to the value of £5, the property of George Dyke. The evidence showed that Melton went aboard the ship at Wellington on Saturday and demanded to see Dyke’s papers, and accused him of being a scab. Later Dyke found his bed upset and the clothes missing. Sergeant McHolm said it was a common practice among men to toss the clothes of suspected scabs overboard. Dyke had lost his naval discharge in the clothes thus disposed of. Another man had also lost his clothes the same night. Melton pleaded that he was under the influence of liquor, and did not remember anything. He was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11658, 24 October 1923, Page 4
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