“I’LL SHOOT YOU”
LOADED REVOLVER ON RACECOURSE By Telegraph- I’uess Association Christchurch, August 19. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day Taupaoa Whitau, a Maori, was charged with having presented a loaded revolver at a man on the Addington racecourse. Witnesses gave evidence that accused approached a man and asked him to make up a ticket, after a race. The accused drew a revolver and said, “If you try anv funny business I’ll shoot you.” The police then intervened. Accused was fined £5.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 270, 20 August 1925, Page 8
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