BRAWL ON THE MAORI.
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE ALLEGED. CHRISTCHURCH, July 27. James Gordon Bennett, a seaman, who was paid off the Moeraki at Wellington yesterday, and who in company with about a dozen members of the crew of the same ship was returning home to Dunedin by the Maori, got into a brawl on board last night. On the Maori’s arrival at Lyttelton this morning, while stepping on to the ferry train, he was arrested. Bennett appeared later at the Lyttelton Magistrate's Court before Mr W. P. Cleary, J.IL, on a charge that on July 26 between Wellington and Lyttelton he robbed John Robert Scoilay of £lO, and at the same time used personal violence to Scoilay. He was further charged with stealing three cups, valued at Is 3d elich, the property of the Union Steam Ship Company. The accused was remanded for a week.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3829, 2 August 1927, Page 75
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145BRAWL ON THE MAORI. Otago Witness, Issue 3829, 2 August 1927, Page 75
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