MAN CHASES BOY WITH TOMAHAWK

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 34, 3 May 1927, Page 1

MAN CHASES BOY WITH TOMAHAWK

HAWKER FINED £3 FOR HIS THREATENING CONDUCT YESTERDAY Suffering from depressed spirits as the result of an unsuccessful day’s hawking yesterday, Arthur Frank <sook consoled himself by consuming more firewater than might have been advisable under the circumstances. Then he must have thought he was a Red Indian for, sighting a telegraph messenger boy in the railway entrance, he drew a tomahawk which he had picked up somewhere in his travels —he had no idea where —and dashed in pursuit. The boy fled round the Post Office with the would-be Redskin in hot pursuit. It was at this stage that Constable Riley came along, and as a result, in the Police Court this morning, Cook, who is 35, was charged with using threatening behaviour in a railway entrance aud with stealing a tomahawk (owner unknown) valued at ss. “It was his first day out and he did no good,” Senior-Sergeant Edward explained, referring to Cook’s hawking. The Redskin and the tomahawk affair cost Cook £3 with an alternative of ten days in gaol.