TWO SHOTS FIRED

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 144, 21 June 1939, Page 13

TWO SHOTS FIRED

\RMED MADMAN.

OPOTIKI SENSATION.

POLICE THREATENED.

COURAGEOUS SERGEANT. ■• STOP OR I'LL DRILL YOU !»» lll.i r. !• uniph -Own Correspondent.) OPOTIKT, thw day. A <"'•" i'i >n wae created in Opotiki l,i*t ni.'iil ulien a man aged about 32 '"■in " ■•'! «i ,! i a rifle, threatening to .-noiil ,iii\iiiu< who went near tho (.it.<".<■•■ i "inent in Kelly Street. s '■''■ " ' ■" "i a hlacksmith* *hop tried I" in , ' ll I' ll ' <l(Mnrtitc(l r.ian to go across I" i"' "'l'- hilt he fired two t-hots at the -" , .Irixinnr thy mrn back. One man linn went through the rear door to the |< '!i '• -:.iI inn. In Hi'- ine.iiiliiiu" lhi> man with the rifle I iH'il in hold up passing <-,uv. When I*bi«ter and Constable. Cooper iirrivcil on the scone the man I,'i-plli'il hi* ride at the »*ergesint islioutiujr. •■.-:■ inrl hack or I'll drill a hole through you." Threat Repeated. The servant walked to within 10 \.ml- of the man. The man's ritle I• <->illl1■ • 1 at him all the time and the .■.(inn , ihreat was re|>ented. Serjeant Isbister told thp man that li<« u.i-i a piilicr sergeant and the mail ldwcri'd his rihY momentarily. At the (.dine lime he asked who the man behind Iho sergeant was, meaning Constable ( <»i|« r. Tho sergeant then took the iitie from the iinui. who was in n highly rxcilcil condition and still threatening to shoot anyone who came near the convent. A iiiiiiilmt cf men came from hiding in (lie blacksmith'* shop end the demented man rushed at one of them. Mr. Tony Walker, strikin? him in the face. All the way to the police station the man threatened to *ho<>t anyone who went near the convent. Rifle Was Stolen. The rifle wuh one uhjcli lie admitted hilt ing stolen from n Maori named Kurilrangi. He had twenty-nine .2 - J cartridges in liis possession when arrested and two live and three spent "not were found on the footpath where he had been standing. The rifle wa.« not loaded but had just been tired. The man wa* Inter committed to the Auckland Mental Hospital.