SEAMAN WITH RAZOR

Southland Times, Issue 22473, 8 November 1934, Page 8

SEAMAN WITH RAZOR

CHASE ON MOTOR VESSEL. OVERPOWERED BY CREW. (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, November 7. Running amok with a blade razor on board the motor vessel Armadale between Lyttelton and Dunedin a seaman named Edward Haslam chased a greaser and had to be apprehended by the captain and the officers. The police stated that Haslam, who was charged with assaulting Frederick George Gwyer, on November 5 partook of considerable liquor at Lyttelton, got possession df a razor and chased Gwyer. Haslam was put in the hospital room but smashed the door with a stretcher. He was then seized by the crew and locked in the forepeak. When examined here he was fairly rational but was still suffering from alcohol. The accused had signed on in the South of Wales and more or less had misbehaved on the voyage out. Haslam was fined 20/- or in default two days’ imprisonment, the magistrate remarking “The ship will have to take him, we don’t want him here.”