ANOTHER OTAKI SENSATION.
GUN PRESENTED. LUCKILY NO HARM DONE. Late ou Friday night a gang of about six youths visited the residence of Mrs. Hobbs, situate on the old cemetery road, and awakened her by knocking loudly on the door and asking if Mr. Hobbs was home. Mrs. Hobbs answered in the negative, but offered to take name and message, but one of the gang, after making remarks that were uncalled for. said it did not matter. Further discussion followed, and Mrs. Hobbs. who is in delicate health, awakened her daughter. One of the youths then, it is stated, attempted to open the window from the bottom but being unable to do so opened it from the top. Mrs. Hobbs, fearing they were would enter, secured a gun and presented it. It was first met with jeers, but the intruders, using discretion, left. The gun was fully loaded, and had the men continued to force an entrance Mrs. Hobbs would probably have fired in self protection. To-day there is not a policeman in Otaki, and the matter is therefore in abe'vance.
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Otaki Mail, 12 November 1923, Page 2
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