HOLDING UP A DETECTIVE.
Timaru, i.Sept. 28. s At the Magistrate’s Court today James Husband, aged 25, was charged that, on September 27, at Claremont, lie did unlawfully present a loaded fire-arm at Detective Robert James Walker when the latter interviewed him on another charge. Accused pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Gibson said that accused had been suspected by Detective Walker of forgery, and the latter had consequently interviewed him. Accused agreed to accompany the detective, but when the latter’s hat blew off accused bolted.
The detective ultimately found him in a gully when Husband brandished a loaded gun and presented it at the detective, keeping the latter at bay for an hour. At the end of that period the detective was able to persuade accused to desist and accompany him, quietly. , The accused said that he was out shooting rabbits. He did not know what made him load the weapon when he was running away. He may have had “rats.” He had no intention of firing at the detective. Accused was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment on the first charge, and on the charge of forgery he was remanded until Friday.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3697, 29 September 1927, Page 3
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190HOLDING UP A DETECTIVE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3697, 29 September 1927, Page 3
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