LADY CYCLIST SHOT AT.
BY TWO YOUTHS: ONE MASKED,
(By TelegrapU.—Prore Association.) Auckland, May 28, A youth, Arthur Dunn, 23 years of age, was charted at the Police Court today with having assaulted Emma Butcher on Sunday, April 27. Mrs. Butcher, said that she was cycline out to St, Ilclier's Bay on Sunday cfternoon, and got off her machine at St John's College. Sho noticed two lads upproaching her, ono of them being Dunn. The other was a somewhat taller lad, and had a black handkerchief over his face, masking it. These two had passed her somo seven or eight yards when one of them called: "Hands up!" and then Dunn fired a revolver over hor head. f~.ho at once got on her bicyclo and cycled away. She had frequently seen Dunn, and knew him by sight, but sho did not know the taller'lad. After proceeding somo distance sho heard two more shots fired. For the defence an attempt was madO to prove an alibi.. It was also 6tated that acoused was simple-minded, and wa9 too much afraid of firearms to handle Dunn was oonvictod, and ordered to come up for sentence tfhen called upon, his mother and brother, entering into a bond for his good .behaviour.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1762, 29 May 1913, Page 4
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207LADY CYCLIST SHOT AT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1762, 29 May 1913, Page 4
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