SUSPECTED "SCABS."
CLOTHES PUT OVERBOARD BY SEAMEN. (By Telegraph. Preys Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. William Edward Melton, 26 years of age, a fireman on the Mararoa, was charged in the Police Court to-day with stealing clothes to the value of £5, the property of George Dyke. The evidence showed that Melton went aboard the vessel at Wellington on Saturday, demanded to see Dyke's papers, and accused him of being a scab. Later Dyke found his bed upset and the clothes missing. The police said it was a common practice among seamen to toss the clothes of suspected soabs overboard. Dyke had lost his naval discharge in the clothes thus disposed of. Another man had also lost his clothes the same night. Melton pleaded that he was under the influence of liquor and did not remember anything. He was sentenced to a month's imprisonment.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1420, 25 October 1923, Page 5
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142SUSPECTED "SCABS." Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1420, 25 October 1923, Page 5
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