TEE GELIGNITE SCARE.
(PHESS ASSOCIATION* TELEGRAM.)
AUCKLAND, December 8. Tho old man Joseph Davis, aged 75 years, who caused a sensation in the height of the strike excitement, by reporting that he had found gelignite on the rails of the Main Trunk Railway just before the Wellington express was due, pleaded guilty at the Supreme Court this morning, when he was charged that, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, he had laid two plugs of gelignite, with fuse and detonators attached, on the railway at Green l.ane railway station.
Mr Justice Edwards said he recognised tliat accused had hitherto borne a good character. No doubt the offence was due entirely to the weakening of his mind with advanced years, but that very circumstance made him the more dangerous to the community. He sentenced Davis to reformative treatment not exceeding five yeais,
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14844, 9 December 1913, Page 10
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