A LUNATIC AT LARGE.
AUCKLAND CITIZEN STUCK UP THREATENED WITH A REVOLVER. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 18. An alarming incident occurred in Shortland Street outside the Post Office, when a lunatic threatened Mi Thomas Craig Willi a revolver. Mr Craig was stopped in the street by a man who demanded £SO from him, and asserted that Messrs J. J. Craig and Co. owed him £3200 ami that if he did not, gel the money he had a revolver in his pocket whicl: he would use.
Constable Sims came to Mr Craig's' rescue, and managed to persuade the lunatic to give up a six-chambered revolver lie had in his pocket. The constable had no doubt as to the insanity of the man when he stated that lie was "Saipl Patrick, King of Ireland." b
The man was subsequently committed to the Avoudale Asylum by the Magistrate. '
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7876, 19 July 1905, Page 2
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146A LUNATIC AT LARGE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7876, 19 July 1905, Page 2
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