CALLED A BOER
SEAMAN SHOWS RESENTMENT. 1 Per Frees Association.! NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct. 31. “I want to go to goal and nnss thG ship. My life's a misery on the ship. They are all working against me,” said Ivor Stephen Krisch, a seaman aged 29, when charged before the Magistrate (Mr. Woodward) to-day with causing £25 damage by putting his foot through the plate-glass window of a shop in Devon Street, New Plymouth, last night. Senior-Sergeant Turner said accused was in town with some of his mates about 7 p.m. An argument took place, according to accused, over his mates calling him a Boer because he was a native of South Africa. He then deliberately put his foot through the window. His mates said accused attempted to attack them with a piece of broken glass, so they knocked him out All the men had been drinking, but were not drunk. Accused was convicted and ordered te make restitution to the extent of £lO, and be placed on the ship on payment of the money.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 258, 1 November 1939, Page 8
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