THREAT WITH FIREARM

Evening Star, Issue 19411, 20 November 1926, Page 3

THREAT WITH FIREARM

SENTENCE OF THREE MONTHS [[•bp. United Press Association.! AUCKLAND, November 19. A charge of pointing a firearm at TJiomas Martin, and also carrying a pistol without proper authority or sufficient purpose, was preferred against William Edward Cotter, aged fortynine, in the Police Court to-day. Chief-detective Cummings stated that accused pointed the revolver at a man named Martin in the bar of an hotel, and said to Martin; “I will do for you.” Cotter, on November 10, had been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for vagrancy. He was a man with a record of previous convictions, who would not hesitate to use a revolver. Cotter told the magistrate that lie bought the weapon from a sailor, and was trying to self it. Ho admitted pointing it at Martin, but only in fun. ‘ 1 knew with my record I would not be allowed to carry a revolver, ami I knew that if the police saw mo with it I would get three months,” he added Chief-detective Cummings: You arc a pretty good judge. The accused was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on the first charge, to be cumulative with a sentence of six months which he is at present serving, and two months on the second charge to run concurrently.