IN VERMINOUS CELL
OFFICER’S PRIVATIONS DAYS WITHOUT FOOD LONDON, January 23. _ With a, sextant and banjo bag as his luggage, A. G. Brewer arrived at Southampton on his way to London to consult solicitors with a, view to claiming compensation from die Portuguese Government. Brewer, who was second officer of the Clan Lamond, was sentenced to 360 days’ imprisonment for theft at Lobito Bay, Portuguese West Africa. He expressed surprise at bis conviction on the evidence. Then followed three foodless days in a cell 10ft. square, with no windows and the most primitive sanitation. His bed was a verminous pallet, and, after three weeks, lie was admitted to hospital. Brewer, who avers that lie suffered greatly from malaria, said that after a, year’s incarceration he was a mere skeleton and unable to walk.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16865, 31 January 1929, Page 11
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133IN VERMINOUS CELL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16865, 31 January 1929, Page 11
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