SAILOR AND PARROT
HOTEL BIRD STOLEN FIGHT FOR OWNERSHIP 'L'XHIBIT A in a case heard at the Police Court to-day was a green parrot, which stared up at the magistrate from its cage. The parrot was part of the evidence against Raymond Fitzgerald, aged 27, a member of the crew of the S.S. West Henshaw. Fitzgerald pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing the bird from Gleeson’s Hotel. Thomas Richards, the hotel licensee, said that the bird had been taken from the dining room of the hotel. A taxi-driver said that he drove accused, another man, and the bird down to the West Henshaw. “They both talked to the parrot as if they knew it well,” said wit- j In a statement to the police, Fitzger- j aid said he had been given the parrot ! as a souvenir. On board the ship he and his com- j panion quarrelled over the ownership I of the bird, and as his companion won j the ensuing fight, it became his pro- j perty. Fitzgerald was fined £5, in default i 14 days’ imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 198, 10 November 1927, Page 1
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