CARGO-BROACHING CASES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14925, 30 August 1910, Page 7

CARGO-BROACHING CASES.

SUBSTANTIAL PENALTIES IN' FLICTEDi Tho olEcor, boatswain, and seamen of tho Kid Ora who wcro ohargd with theft ami broaching cargo wcro brought boforo Mr Widdowfion for ecntcnco at tjjo City Polioe Court yesterday morning. The first to appoaT wis «ToWh William jVulls f IwutswAin, charged with embezzling from tho shin's stores ono coil of ropo valued at about £4. H,is Worship, addressing tho accused, said blmt it nppww' that hitherto ho liadborno a Rood character, and ho was prepared to acoopt fho statement, that this was an isolated offence. It was, however, a very Borious ono, rendering tho acctiacd liable t<j 12 monthsf imprisonment, but ho did not look cm tiro samo lig-ht as that of fcho men who had hroachcd cargo. Ho would bo convicted and ordered to forfeit out of bis wages a sum equal to tho loss sustained, and to bo imprisoned for ono month in Dunedin Gaol, Ernest Frederick Guest an 3 Archibald Ernest Korrick were next brought up. They pleaded " Guilty," Lie Worship reminded thorn, to tho broaching of cargo and the thoft of goods valued at £32, lmder circumstances which showed that thoy had very little regard for tho safety of the ship. Thoy had j>ut ofc out of thoir pew or to mako restitution. Ho looked upon it: as a. very serious ofTcnco, and ho' could not inflict anything but a serious penalty. With regard to tho officer. James Hayter Barter, who came boforo him for tho embezzling of goods valued at £3,' ho thought tho offonoo was more serious still. Not only was ho implicated with tho others, but ho 'had committed a very gravo breach of his responsible duty and trust as an officer. Guest and Korrick would bo ordered to forfeit out of their wages a sum equivalent to the loss sustained, and in audition each of thorn would bo sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, in Duncdm Prison. Barter, also; would bo ordered to forfeit the amount of tho loss sustained, and to undergo nine months' imprisonment, with hard labour, in Dunodin Prison.