SHOT HEARD IN DARK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 202, 27 August 1931, Page 3

SHOT HEARD IN DARK.

MAILMAN REPORTS TO POLICE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) PALMERSTON N., Wednesday. The story that, after delivering rural mail into a galvanised iron mail box at Tiakitahuna, two miles from the scene of the Blakeway tragedy, he heard the whine and crash of a pea rifle bullet into some object nearby, was reported to the police this morning by Mr. E. F. Spiers.

The incident occurred at 4 o'clock in the morning, when it was quite dark. Mr. Spiers thought at first that a tyre had pinched a etone which struck the mail box, but he realised later that the road was bituminised. On his return journey he discovered a bullet hole in the mail box and reported the matter to the police.

Shortly afterwards the owner of the mail box, Mr. A. Matheson, arrived at the police station with a bullet, but later his wife reported that she had observed a hole in the box a day or two ago. It is thought strange, however, that the bullet was not discovered before. It is regarded as possible that Mr. Spiers heard a shot and that the bullet struck another object. The police are pursuing inquiries.