OSWALD COULTON
i>K AD BANK. BOMBER I’OIJCK .MAKE EUE.SH DISCOVERIES AIR IMSTOL AXD KMI’E (I *er Press Asseciacion). A uck 1 and, November ‘.3. 'Tw o detective sergeants are still a. lively engaged i.u investigating -lie record of the Australian, Oswald <'oultoiK who was shot dead when attempting to- rob the Hank oi New Zealand, ’Remuera., oil Tuesday. Con Item’s activities in crime a;rt* indicated by Ids mode of livdug, a,s he was frequently on,; at all hours of the J'ight. Aittir lie- left hi* farm employment at Papakurn, he had no regular work and wa-s not employed on relief work. A further factor suggesting that CWton was a criminal is the fv?d.-. i”g of a heavy ain'-pls-tol and a kn.ifo among some belongings which he left ac a house lie lived ill for n short time. Thjo pistol and knife were not found in the room Cotillon
occupied at Park lioad, but in another house iu Auckland where he had stayed and had left without paying his hoard, and where some of his possessions wore held by the landlady. She had never inspected the ar: ides and was unaware the revolver and knife wore among them.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2585, 1 December 1931, Page 3
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