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THREAT WITH A GUN

BOY'S INTELLIGENT ACTION (P.A.) WAIROA, This Day. Clarence Vincent Cooper, of Mohaka, aged 40, was yesterday sentenced to a month's imprisonment on a charge of presenting a firearm at Leonard Culshaw. The evidence showed that had not Cooper's son, frightened that his father was going to shoot a man he had quarrelled" with, removed the wads and shot when he was ordered by his father to bring ammunition from the house, Cooper might have faced a most serious charge. The presiding Justices, Mr. M. J. Gemmell and Mr. O. A. Jonson, highly commended the lad for his presence of mind.

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