CARS BOMBARDED.
STONES AND LUMPS OF IRON.
WOMAN PASSENGER CUT.
POLICE ARREST A LABOURER.
(By Telegraph—Presa Association.)
PALMEKSTON N., tins day
Sensational incidents occurred 011 the main highway near Whakarongo yesterday. Taking up a position at the side of the road, a man of strange demeanour bombarded passing motor cars with stones and other dangerous missiles,. Some cars got past safely, but two were damaged. A bag of stones was hurled through the windscreen of one, and the driver had a lucky escape from injury. A lump of iron penetrated the side-curtains of another car, and a woman passenger was cut. * The police were sent for, and after manoeuvring the man, who still held a piece of iron, into a safe position, they arrested him. George Henry Harper, aged 47, a labourer with no fixed abode, wss charged in the Police Court this morning with committing damage. He was remanded.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 250, 22 October 1928, Page 3
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150CARS BOMBARDED. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 250, 22 October 1928, Page 3
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