Ship Deserter Locked up.
At the City Police Court, before Mr. G. P. M. Murray, P.M., and Messrs. D. Gallway, T. H. Cowl, and J. J. Banks, JJ.P., on Wednesday, Thomas Murray, on remand, who gave himself up tor stealing a pair of boots, saying he had deserted from the ship Glenburn and wished to be locked up, was again before the bench.
Subinspector Burke prosecuted.
No further evidence was adduced, but the captain of the Glenburn, who was present, asked that the defendant be locked up until the vessel was about to sail.
The Police-magistrate replied that defendant was not charged with an offence under the Navigation Act. He would be imprisoned for seven days, and if the captain wished he could take out a warrant for defendant’s return to the ship at the expiration of that time.
The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, AUS, November 20, 1902