THE UBIQUITOUS AIR-GUN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 118, 4 October 1912, Page 5

THE ÜBIQUITOUS AIR-GUN.

A POLICEMAN'S ESCAPE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. On Monday uight last, about 6.15, Sergeant Hodgson was walking in uniform down High street. He had just passed a tobacconist's shop when a pellet came from nowhere, apparently, and entered the door of the shop and broke a mirror inside. Those in the street heard no report at all. The people in the shop rushed out, end Sergeant Hodgson turned back. A3, he heard the tale, a second pellet came through the glass roof of tlie verandah and through the window of the shop. Xo one was hit, and, as before, no report was heard. The pellets have not been discovered, but their track suggests that they came either from a 22 calibre rifle or an airgun. On this foundation has grown a tale, now current, that some miscreant had shot twice at the Sergeant, and many circumstantial stories are told. The detectives, however, give it quite another. They say that 011 a roof near "by a man was shooting at pigeons. There was a minute between the shots,' and it was merely a circumstance that they nearly found the police.