Fired Shots At House And Then Surrendered
♦ WHANGAREI, Angust 17. A man, after allegedly firing several slipts .at a house at Towai vesterday. armed with a repeating rifle, dis3.ppear ed in the busli. Later he came out of the bush, siu're.n.dei'ed at another house aud gave up his nifle. There he was hn,eSted1!'by" 'the'- poliee who had been searching for liiin in the bush this morning. Wirihana Win.eata Potaka, aged 38, railway servieeuian, was charged in the Whangarei Court with attempting to do grievous bodily harm. by discharging the rifle. He wa$ remanded for a weeh in custodv. •Tt is alleged that, wishing to see his wife, he went ,to the horae of her parents at Towai and when slve refused to see him, he fired several shots from a .22 calibre repeating rifle towards fhe house and then disappeared in the bush.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 August 1949, Page 7
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