HOME-MADE REVOLVER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 260, 3 November 1925, Page 16

HOME-MADE REVOLVER.

I*. ■ >■ fJ. DRIVER IN TROUBLE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. While searching the house of Alfred Etanton Booth, for an unregistered revolver, which had come to the knowledge of the police, Constable Sutton calrie xipon a weird-looking weapon, which, on closer scrutiny, proved to be a -homemade revolver. Booth was charged on four "counts, with breaches of the Arms Act and the revolver, when produced in Court, furnished a good deal of amusement. The breach was part of an old army rifle cut down, while the stock was crudely fashioned out of a piece of rough wood. Booth, it was stated, had made this murderous-looking weapon in England, prior to leaving for New Zealand. Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M.: Evidently he considered he should, have some safeguard when he set out for ffce "ivilds of New Zealand. (Laughter). Remarking that defendant had probably erred in ignorance, his Worship imposed a nominal fine of 5/ and costs on each of the four charges. The weapon was confiscated.