A Sensational Arrest. A BOY SHOOTS HIMSELF.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 147, 20 December 1895, Page 3

A Sensational Arrest. A BOY SHOOTS HIMSELF.

- T (p e t Press Association.) ''-": :: - --"."■' "' "'■'■"' Dunedin, Dec. 19. - »pi, e re was mnch excitement near the Office shortly after 8 o'clock this y? ;^ evening. For some time jpast complaints liave been made that letters with money have gone astray after being posted. After enquiry detectives decided to watch the letter boxes in the Post OflSce. ' As Detective O'Connor was so engaged '-'^^lugbVa'boy named Herbert Orr, aged ' :s *bcmt fourteen years, was noticed opening one of the boxes and taking letters. - The detective slipped off his boots, but 'when he opened the door the boy had '-' put some distance between them. Jnst • as the boy rounded into Princess street he looked back, and, seeing the detective, bolted. He went along Bond street and down Water street, the detective following Kid crying ont " Stop thief." Just as the detective was winded and fell, a man on horseback followed the boy, ■who went into a coal yard. On the detective making a search he found the boy ih a water closet. He had his hands on his breast and begged tbe detective to let him off. When the detective said he could not the boy said he would shoot himself at once. Ho fired a revolver he was clasping in bis bands. The bullet ■ " •■ entered the left breast about the region of the heart. The boy was at once removed but is not expected to live through the night. He is small for his age and is ihe son of a commission agent in town** M-aamaa^ammmmammm