“LIFE A MISERY”
GAOL PREFERRED TO SHIPBOARD SEAMAN BREAKS WINDOW (Per United Press Association; NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct 31. “I want to go to gaol and miss this ship. My life’s a misery on the ship—they are all working against me,’ said Ivor Stephen Krisch, g seaman, aged 29, when charged before Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M,, to-day with causing £25 damage by putting his foot through the plateglass window of a shop in Qevon street. New Plymouth last night. Senior Sergeant Turner said the accused was in town with some of his mates. About 7 p.m. an argument took place over, according to the accused has mates calling him a Boer because he was a native of South Africa. He then deliberately put his fort through the window. His mates said the accused attempted to attack them with a piece of broken glass, so they knocked him out. All the men had been drinking, but were not drunk. The accused was convicted and ordered to, make restitution to the extent of £lO. and to be placed on the ship on payment of the money.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23954, 1 November 1939, Page 2
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