STRUGGLE IN A POLICE STATION.
■_). 'i : pekoneeland;:eevolveeV;/^- ■:■ (By.; Association.) :.':-". .• '."-';''■ ■ -K; Christchiirchi.. January, ife.',-; ./' Yesterday,' eve'iungi; /■ a : ./'; strongly-built young', man.was„noticed..tb ; be; ; behaving in 'a peculiar?. manner 1 oh "the' platform of ■: the:. Xyttelton ; ; Railway X Station, iV He was -;arrested,'.' andV went, .quietly.;"to :the' polico station,.but,'/./when -.'inside,'".:-' : he. threw, himself on 'the" floor,, and:struggled vigorously; with''-th'e-"coh'stable;',;Hb:,put; his'handliri ■ his "shirt and/pulled out.' a revolver.'whioh'' was .wrapped in :his: handkerchief,/ :and :; succeeded;.'in-placing.: the.: /still -covered">.with' the handker- , ohief.v- in; f his '. mouth. ... .The /'constable, pulled ■ the- revolver,away and,^with:.-the assistance" of. another:-constable, got : it away' from" the .'prisoner. 'The: weapon was; loaded .in/five/.chambers,: and-::ap-parently/.tho'man's"; life;-was--saved'-iby the/*handkerchief, a fold 'of-which' had. become jammed/under,.the., hammer,:-'.;',
''"Alter,- losing,', possession': of - tho/firearnr the mail quietened down'and asked for a ; drinkriHelwas. 'placed,: in :a v celland examined 'this morning 1 for''lunacy. >, ; v
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 709, 7 January 1910, Page 5
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133STRUGGLE IN A POLICE STATION. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 709, 7 January 1910, Page 5
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