ARMED WITH A BLUDGEON
SEAMAN FOUND GUILTY (Per United Press Association.) ' WELLINGTON, August 2. An echo of the seamen’s strike in May last was heard in the Supreme Court to-day, when Terence Welsh Flynn, a seaman, aged 23, was charged with being a rogue and vagabond in that he was found armed with a bludgeon with felonious intent. The evidence showed that the accused was accosted by a constable on the wharf, and a sawn-off heavy end of a billiard cue was found in his hip pocket. The defence was that the accused picked up the article in a shed on the wharf and put it in his pocket, thinking it might come in handy for a hammer or something else. The jury returned a verdict of guilty with a strong recommendation to leniency in view of the accused’s youth, good character, and the conditions ruling at the time the offence was committed. The accused was remanded for sentence.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22022, 3 August 1933, Page 10
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