SEAMAN DESERTER SENT TO GAOL
Pleading guilty to a charge of deserting from the liner Norman Star at Wellington on December 14. 1547, John Brian Turner. Dauneey, seaman, aged 20 years, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui yesterday. Sergeant M. E. Parker said that accused, who came from England, had called at the Wanganui Police Station last Tuesday and admit* M he was a deserter.
In answer to the magistrate, accused said that he wished to stay in New Zealand. ‘These cases have been very numerous lately and I notice that in Wellington they have been punished with one month’s imprisonment,” Mr Salmon said. “I have to impose a sentence of imprisonment on you, but I will take into consideration the fact that you have already been in custody for several days.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 10 April 1948, Page 6
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