SENSATIONAL INCIDENT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1562, 4 October 1912, Page 4

SENSATIONAL INCIDENT.

WHERE DID THE PELLETS COMB ]?KOM? (By Telcgraph.-PrcES Association.) Christchurch,. October 3. On Monday night: last, about. 0.15 o'clock. Sergeant Hodgson was walking in uniform down High Street. He had just passed a tobacconist's shop, when a pellet came from nowhere, apparently, entered the door of the shop, and broke a mirror inside. Those, in the street heard no report nt all. Tho people in the shop rushed out, and Sergeant turned biiclt, and a second pellet came through the gins? roof of tho verandah and through the window of the shop. No one was hit, and as before no report was hoard. Tlie pellets havo not, been discovered, but their track suggests that they came either from a .22 calibre riflo or air. gun. On this foundation lias grown a tn!o now current that some miscreant had shot twice at tho sergeant, and many circumstantial stories are told. The detectives, however, give it quite another aspect, They Bay that on. a roof near by a man was shooting at pigeons. Thoro was a minute between the shots, and it was merely a circumstance that they nearly found tho police officer,