MAN RUNS AMUCK

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 33, 9 February 1927, Page 10

MAN RUNS AMUCK

POMTS LOADED GUN

(By T«l«graph.—Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, This Day. Toe actions of, a young Makotuku resident yesterday disturbed the pastoral quietude of the country township and the excitement resulted in the Dannevirke police being summoned to arrest the individual, who- had aHegedJy run amuck. : • '

Constables; Canning and Gibbs went to within a short distance of Mataman to take up a strategic position to intercept the man, who was reported to be heading south. They had just stopped when the'individual appeared in a car, and allegedly attempted to point a.;. 303 rifle at Constable Canning, who grasped the rifle' by the barrel and .Constable Gibbs pulled the: weapon away. The. man was taken from the car. He struggled, and had to be roped and handcuffed.

Subsequently he was brought to Dannevirke. ■ The captured rifle was loaded* in ■ one barrel, and four other cartridges were in his possession, as .well as an Unloaded, pea rifle. The man was subsequently medically examined, and the decision of the doctors dispensed with; the necessity, of bringing him before the Court on several serious charges.

The unfortunate fellow developed strange symptoms in the morning, and it is alleged that he was going about Makotuku holding up residents at the point of the gun, and after examining any papers in their possession, allowing them to go. Fortunately nothing serious resulted.