MAN WITH A GUN
VISITS NATIVE GIRLS IT WAS ONLY A JOKE (From Our Own Correspondent.) PUKEKOHE, To-day. Strange ideas as to what constitutes a joke are- held by a young man named Lester Cosseboom. He went to a dwelling at Port Waikato occupied by two native girls. He was wrapped in a blanket and carried a shotgun. Subsequently he said it was a joke, and gave the girls 5s and their father £ 1 to say nothing about it. The father promptly took the £1 to the police, as he did not see the joke. When charged in the Pukekohe Police Court on Saturday before Messrs. J. T. Stembridge and D. R. Hamilton, J.P.’s, with being found with a gun unlawfully on premises at night, Cosseboom pleaded guilty. Constable Maiden said that since accused had injured his head in an accident he had had periods of irresponsibility. . Accused was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon, and an application for suppression of his name was refused.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 313, 26 March 1928, Page 11
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168MAN WITH A GUN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 313, 26 March 1928, Page 11
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