AN ACT OF FEAR.
GUN FIRED AT DETECTIVE. AN AUCKLAND SENSATION. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 14. A sensational affair took place about midday to-day in a bouse in Great South Road, Ellerslie. Detective Nalder and Acting-Detec-tive Power had occasion to interview a man named Athol George Beamish White. . It is understood that when both officers went into the room, White picked up a gun and shot at Power, tho bullet narrowly missing him. Detective Nalder immediately seized White, and took him to the City Police Station, where he was charged with attempting to murder Orme Snow Wilson Power. White, who is twenty-five years of age, appeared before Mr J. M. Poynton, S.M., at the Police Court this afternoon. Chief-Detective Cummings asked for a remand until to-morrow, which was granted. White then said, "I thought ho was trying to put me back in the Asylum. That's why I tried to murder him. That's as good as murdering me, to put me back in the Asylum." The Magistrate asked accused to repeat this statement, and advised the Clerk of the Court and the Chief Detective to take a note of what White said. White did so, and all that he said was transferred to paper.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVIII, Issue 10943, 15 June 1927, Page 2
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204AN ACT OF FEAR. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVIII, Issue 10943, 15 June 1927, Page 2
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