Stick-up in the street.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42750, 20 July 1905, Page 2

Stick-up in the street.

INCIDENT IN AUCKLAND. Auckland, July 18. An alarming incident occurred in Shortland-street, outside the Post Office, when a lunatic threatened Mr Thomas Craig with a revolver. Mr Craig was stopped in the street by a nun who demanded £SO from him, and asserted that Messrs J. J. Craig and Co, owed him £32,000, and that if he did not get the money he had a revolver in his pocket, which he would use. , , Constable Sims came to Mr Craig s rescue, and managed to persuade the lunatic to give up a six-chambered revolver he hod m his pocket. The constable had no doubt as to ti e insanity of the man when he stated that he was “ Saint Patrick, King of Ireland.” The man was subsequently committed to the Avondale Asylum by the Magistrate. _________