CARGO PILFERING.
CHRISTCHURCH, March 26. As tho result of a raid yesterday in the seamen's quarters of an oversea vessel, John Marshall. Frederick Edward Elkin, and Walter Tull, were charged at Lyttelton to-day with stealing goods valued at £3 I6s, the property of the New Zealand Shipping Company. Each pleaded guilty to taking possession of tho goods, but denied having broken into the cargo. In the course of his evidence, an officer in the ship stated that he had heard of very few oases of pillaging on a vessel while on tho Now
Zealand coast. He did not consider the present offence a very serious one, and he hoped that the bench would not imprison the men, as there was a shortage of seamen. A fine of £5 and costs was imposed on each accused. The bench remarked that the offence was a very 6erious one. The articles had been stolen with tho full knowledge that they belonged to Bomebody else. It was surprising that a ship's officer should treat tho offence so lightly. It was certainly the wrong method of helping tho authorities to prevent pillaging of cargo.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3342, 3 April 1918, Page 44
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189CARGO PILFERING. Otago Witness, Issue 3342, 3 April 1918, Page 44
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