SHIP’S OFFICER ASSAULTED.
FIREMEN SENT TO GAOL. NAPIER. February 4. Phillip Dwyer and William Lambert, firemen on the steamer Mahana, were charged this morning with assaulting the chief officer on board the ship at Wellington on January 29. and with using obscene language. Dwyer pleaded guilty, and Lambert not guilty. Richard Edmund Thompson, chief officer, gave evidence that the offences were committed on the deck when he was summoned on January 29 to intervene in a fight between the ship's carpenter and Dwyer am’ Lambert. The last-named struck witness, causing a broken nose, and Dwyer struck him from behind. The accused were taken to the police station in Wellington, but allowed to rejoin their ship on condition that they pleaded guilty on the ship's arrival at Napier. Corroborative evidence was heard, and also a denial by Lambert that he struck Thompson. Dwyer denied striking the chief officer from behind. The magistrate sentenced Dwyer to two months’ imprisonment on the assault charge, and fined him £3 in default one month on the second charge. His Worship said he was satisfied that Lamberts suilt had been proved, and sentenced him to one month’s imprisonment.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3961, 11 February 1930, Page 20
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