DESERTING SEAMEN
ONE ADMITTED TO PROBATION Three seamen—Andrew Doubleday, aged 17. Charles Thomas Edge, aged 24, ana Robert!’Anderson, aged 31—pleaded guilty before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., in the City Police Court yesterday to a charge of having deserted from the Vasconia at Lyttelton on August 6 last. Mr D. A. Solomon, for the shipping company concerned, said that all the men had good records. Anderson had served in the Royal Navy for eight years and Edge was in the Merchant Navy for six years. Doubleday had been trained as a cook and was in employment in Dunedin. Mr Solomon suggested that in view of Doubleday’s age he should be released on probation. The magistrate admitted Doubleday Co probation for 12 months, a condition being that his employment and wages should be controlled by the probation officer. The ether defendants were each sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26847, 11 August 1948, Page 2
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