TREATMENT OF A SAILOR.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10605, 7 November 1910, Page 4

TREATMENT OF A SAILOR.

' DISPROVED (Per Purss Association ) Wellington, Novembci G The exti'aoidinaij tales of cruelties which weie alleged, to have taken place on the Geimm bll que Mutha Bockhahn gillie in New Zealand wateis wore lefeued to b\ thq Chief Just ire (Su Robeit Stoui) \esteul y aL llie Supreme Couit

On Saturda\, October 22, Olaf Aancnsen, a \oulig Noiwepu'i., sailoi, was chaiged with escaping Jiom custody at WesXport wmle clcT.niied on 1 chaise of desertion- rioiu his >-hip Spcal."]g in biokcn 1 English,' the prisonei sad he had beeti bd.iten 011 the ship till lie was black and blue, nid that he hid been bung up bv"tlie hdcls md subletted to other cruelties Irerauso He was 110 L a Geinihil He did not want to go biCK to the Vessel, as'he 1 \pected a upctition ol tlie'.tie.itmeiit The accused pieffcued ganl'lo reiuiiiing to the ship, and 'lie w'as accoldingly sentenced to live weeks' imprisonment, whuh wouk.l eairj fnm over the time the ship would be in port. His Honoi suggested that the matter be refened to the Geiman Con'sul l Whenr'tho Court opened 3 esterday his Ho'nor said "As t6 the ill-ti eatment alleged to have taken place on board the Martha Bockhahn, I have received a statement through the Geiman Consul from tr^master of the ba'ique lopudiatlrigl the statements that 111-ti eatment had taken" l place Tlie police leport gives note's of 'evidence taken fiom the 'captain" his officers, and somo of the crew, arid, peihaps, most impoitant of all, fronfCharles M'Lea,n, "who saw what TAis man \vafc not a German, and onry jdmed 1 tho barquo at Westport > They" that the litter's statements are collect, and I have no right to assutneT" they are nicorrect They say that the' man's statements a're untrue 1 , ajld that Aane'iseli had not treated as he alleged, and f arthei, he w'asfapparently iinaei the lufluence--of* liquor' ' "We know from cxpenencc that" people who get intoxicated are _sonietimes \uV t the habit of imagining things that' did not occm At any rate 1 anTS-cry ]»lad that theso statements should I '' havo been mdde, ' 'because I thought at~theJnma'froni what I kno'w of tiie ! r , Certiians'\that t they aie not generally cruel, although"of couise 111diyiduSTs of any face_ may be -I feel ■snfe'-that had arJyfhing been wrong the Geiman authorities "would, have been _pnly too'glad to'remedy it.. From the mass of evidence cbllqcted bj' the police this man's statemeiftb* cannbt be lehed upon." _• ".- 1 ,