FIRING OF PEA-RIFLE
MAN ON DRINKING BOUT" EARLY MORNING OFFENCE (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. ' After being on a drinking bout, William George Boyd, farm labourer, fired his .22 rifle several times at Waddington in the early hours of yesterday morning^ One shot penetrated the wall of a house near some sleeping children. " Yesterday afternoon Boyd appeared in Court and was fined i 20s and costs by Mr. E. C. Lewey, S.M., for having a rifle and ammunition in his possession while drunk. Senior-Sergeant .Calwell said that Boyd had some imaginary grievance and went outside his hut and fired the rifle several times. He had been on a drinking bout for some days prior to the offence.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 7
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