PELLET FLEW NEAR CONSTABLE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 8

PELLET FLEW NEAR CONSTABLE

Fine For Discharging Air-Gun For discharging an air-gun pellet to the danger of Constable H. H. Lowe, Frederick Field, who did not appear, was fined £1 by Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday. Constable Lowe in evidence said that at 6.50 p.m. on February 24 as he was coming down a right-of-way between O-ranki Kaupapa and Garden Roads he heard an air pistol discharged several times and saw a man standing with the pistol at the door to one of several flats in the vicinity. One pellet struck a post about three yards ahead of witness and another hit the roof of a house a yard or two above his head. He went back and interviewed the man, who refused to give his name and address, though he knew witness was a constable. Constable A. T. Cleverley said that, when interviewed later, defendant explained that he was a gunsmith and that he was repairing the air-gun far a friend. He said he was testing its spring when Constable Lowe passed and, though he aimed at no particular object, it was possible that the one pellet that was in the gun might have gone near Constable Lowe. He thought the constable was bluffing when he asked for his name and address.