Sub-enclosure to Enclosure No. 9 in Despatch No.:
139 of the 10th April, 1902.
515
Extract.
In the evening of March 1st, 1903, at about 9 P.M., the sailor Albert Bloem of H.M.S. "Kaiserin Augusta", being drunk, tried to get into a public house in Ship Street, the door of which was locked. Probably he behaved in a noisy or disorderly way; so a policeman pulled him back and beat him with his stick, whereupon the two went into a fight. The three defendants, J. Remle, J. Garbode and A. Meyer, accompanied by some other sailors, came upon the scene. The three defendants tried to prevail upon the policeman, at first in a friendly way, to let go the sailor Bloem as being drunk, by and by a crowd assembled and finally a general fight ensued. The defendants Remle and Meyer admit to have taken a hand in this fight and to have returned blows which they received by blows which they dealt to their assailants, whether policemen or not; the defendant Garbode says that he took no hand in the fight. While all this was going on, one of the other sailors had led the man Bloem away; so the one who actually started the whole row was not arrested at all.
The fourth defendant, H. Pitzner, is entirely innocent; his arrest is simply a case of mistaken identity. He was quietly standing at a street-corner when the crowd accompanying the other defendants to the police station passed by; suddenly he was seized, beaten several times over the head and dragged to the station house. This is proven by the depositions taken on board H.M.S. "Fuerst Bismarck" which left port on March 7th, 1903, for Woosung and Tsingtau.
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Sub-enclosure to Enclosure No. 9 in Despatch No.:
139 of the 10th. April, 1902.:
515
Sxtract.
or
In the evening of March 1st, 1903, at, about 3 9 P... the sailor Albert Bloem of A.. .. S.. "Kaiserin Augusta"; being drunk, tried to get into a public house in Ship Street the door of which was locked. Probably he behaved in a noisy or disorderly way; so a policeman pulled him back and beat him with his stick, whereupon the two went into a fight. The three defendants .. Remle, 3.. Garbode and A. Meyer, accompa- nied by some other sailors, came upon the scene. The three defendants tried to prevail upon the policeman, at first in a friendly way, to lat go the sailor Bloem as being drunk, by and by a crowd assembled and finally a general fight ensued. The defendants Reade and Meyer adsit to have taken a hand in this fight and to have returned blows which they received by blows which they dealt to their assailants, whether policemen or not; the defendant Garbode says that he took no hand in the fight. While all this was going on, one of the other sailors had led the man Bloem away; so the one who actually started the whole row was not arrested at all.
The fourth defendants, H.. Pitzner, is entirely innocent; his arrest is simply a case of mistaken identity. He was quietly standing at a street-corner when the crowd accompanying the other defendants to the police station passed by; suddenly he was seizel, beaten several times over the head and dragged to the station house. This is proven by the lepositions taken on board H. H. S. "Fuerst Bismarck" which left port on March 7th.,1902, for Toosung and Tsingtau.
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