“DEADWOOD DICKS” AND DUMMY PISTOL
YOUTH WHO STOLE 10/. PLACED ON PROBATION Press Association. PALMERSTON NORTH. To-day. "I think he has been reading literature of a class that is no use to him. In his room weer found Dead wood Dick* novels,” said Senior-Sergeant O’Grady at the Palmerston North Police Court this morning, when Clarence Ralph Edwin Wheeler, aged 19, was charged with the theft of 10s. When arrested, the senior sergeant proceeded, he was wearing a belt with cartridge pouches, and had an imitation automatic pistol, really a water pistol, stuck in it. "‘This was harmless, of course, but it shows the ideas running through his mind, ’ continued Mr. O’Grady. It was also stated that the accused had a widowed mother and had been previously trouble. The youth was admitted to probation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 85, 1 July 1927, Page 9
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