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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13412, 9 May 1912, Page 7

A small English coaster, the Friend;ship, was MTecked at Sangatte, " near Calais, and several men were drowned, including James Neave, the master. When his body was subsequently washed ashore and idontiiied no money was found in his pockets, though Neave was known to liiivo nbtuit £12 in Ensrlis)] nionoy about him at ihe timo of the wreck. It wiw- j'^crrtai'.^d Unit .1 workman named Leblond hr.d been chanying English piecos in CV.lds shortly after tho body was found, and he was :irrested and tried at the Boulogno Police Court on the ch.irge of robbing a corpse on the shore. The accused had been on the look out, as it was known locally that the master of the Friendship had &i\q. sv.w puojqoq; • xiosj;od sii{ uo iCouotu first to come across Neavo's body, which ho robbed before daybreak, leaving it to be "discovered" by someone else. The Court sentenced,'the accused to six months' imprisonment. •' ' ■}