MIGRANT AND REVOLVER
“DESPERADO’S” HOSPITALITY. (Per Press Association.) THAMES, November 9. The story of how a young North Irish immigrant had forced a benchful of Hikutaia settlers to accompany him to an hotel and have a drink, at the point of a revolver, was unfolded in the Thames Court this morning, when Andrew Bailey, 21 years, a Salvation Army immigrant, was faced with seven charges in connection with the possession of an unregistered firearm, and one of assault. After hearing the police story that Bailey merely thought himself a youthful desperado when in drink, Mr Platts, S.M., ordered him to come up for sentence in one year if called upon, and prohibited him.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 November 1928, Page 7
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