SHIP’S STEWARD SENTENCED
THEFTS FROM JACOB RUPPERT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, May 23. Arthur Burton Creagh, aged 54, a steward on the Jacob Ruppert, the Byrd expedition ship, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for the theft of an eiderdown quilt from the vessel, A similar charge against Lawrence Henry Kennedy, aged 40, sailmaker on the Bear of Oakland, was dismissed. The police stated that there had been extensive thieving from the expedition’s vessels.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1934, Page 5
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