“POINTING A FIREARM”

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1926, Page 13

“POINTING A FIREARM”

SENTENCE OF THREE MONTHS By Telegraph.—Prues Associativa. Auckland, Last Night A charge of pointing a firearm at Thomas Martin and also of carrying a pistol without proper authority or sufficient purpose, was preferred against William Edward (.'oiler, aged 49, in the Police Court to-day. Chief-Detective Cummings slated that accused pointed tbc revolver at a man named Martin in the bar of an hotel and said to. Martin: "I will do for. yon.” Cotter, on November 10, hail been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for vagrancy. He wae a man with a reeoixl of previous convictions, who would not hesitate to nse a revolver. Cotter told the magistrate that he bought the weapon from a sailor and wae trying to sell it. Ho admitted pointing it at Marlin, but only in fun. "I knew that with my record I would not be allowed to carry a revolver and I know that if Hie police saw me with it I would get three months,” •be added. Chief-Detective Cummings: You are a pretty good judge. Accused was sentenced to three months' Imprisonment on the first charge, to be cumulative with the sentence of six months which he is at present serving, and two months on the seeon-1 eliarge, to lie concurrent.