CONDEMNED MAN'S STORY
THE MINISTER'S VIEW. In the statement made hy Dennis Gunn and signed by him in the presence of a Stipendiary Magistrate, the JusticeT the Hon,- E. P. Dee. infonned Plress . yesterday that Gunn admitted that ho committed tho burglary at the Ponsonby Post Office. "His story." said the Minister, is that ho and two other men took different parts in the crime; that one of them followed tho postmaster and. subsequently returned to the other two with tho keys of the post office; that these two ( Don "J® Gunn being 0110 of thorn) xobljed ttio post office; that after leaving the post office Dennis Gunn told the man who hod been, at the postmasters liousettiat it was decided to lude the rovohois. This man showed three revolvers, and ho (Dennis Gunn) hid them "> the blackterries. Tho police made full .investigations before tho trial as to the, movements of the two men referred to by Gunn, and' satisfied themselves by ths statements of a mm>fr of credible peoplo tkt neither of these men uas in the locality where, the crime:W committed on the. evening of Mnich 13. Further, that their movements on that e\cning aro fully accounted for.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 230, 23 June 1920, Page 8
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