ARMED MAORI YOUTH
TAKES TO BUSH SOUGHT FOR SEVERAL DAYS. CAPTURED BY POLICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, November 18. Armed with a shotgun and cartridges, which he is alleged to have stolen from a house in Kaikorai Valley on Friday last, a 16-year-old Maori youth took to the bush in the vicinity of Fraser's Gully, and after having been sought for several days and causing some apprehension among residents of the district, was captured late this afternoon. When apprehended he was suffering from a flesh wound on the left side, and it is suggested from the nature of the injury that when faced with arrest he may have attempted to take his own life. He was admitted to hospital. When the theft of the gun and cartridges was reported, steps were at once taken to trace the culprit', and though the youth was seen on two occasions, actual contact was not made with him till Monday evening, when Detective Brown discovered him hiding in a Shed. Knowing that the youth was armed, Detective Brown went to summon assistance, but during his absence the lad escaped and made off into the bush again.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1941, Page 7
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