FIRED ON POLICE!
YOUNG MAN’S OUTBURST ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE GREAT SOUTH ROAD EPISODE “J TRIED to murder him because he tried to put me back in the asylum. That is as good as trying to murder me is it not?” This was . the query that ‘Athol George Beamish White, 25, an emaciated young man, tall, wild-eyed and unkempt, put to Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., in the Auckland Magistrate's Court yesterday * when he was remanded on a charge of attempted murder of Constable Power in a house in Great South Road, shortly before 1 o’oclock in the afternoon. When Detective Nalder and Constable Power went to call on White they were greeted with a shot from a gun. The bullet lodged in the wall. Neither of the officers fortunately was injured. White was apprehended on a charge of attempted murder, and later in the day made his appearance before Air. Poynton, S.M. White made an incoherent statement from the dock to the effect that an attempt was made to take him back to the asylum. “That is as good as trying to murder me, isn’t it?” the young man brokenly informed the magistrate. No evidence was proffered by the police. White will again make his appearance in the dock on Wednesday week, June 22. Bail was not allowed. White quietly left the dock, accompanied by police officers.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 71, 15 June 1927, Page 13
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