MYSTERIOUS SHOTS
MAIL-CARRIER’S STORY.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
PALMERSTON NORTH, August 25. A story that, after delivering rural mail into a mail box at Tiakitahuna, two miles from the scene of the Blakeway tragedy, he heard a. whine and the crash of a pea-rifle bullet into some object nearby, was reported to the police this morning, by E. T. Spiers. The incident occurred at 4 o’clock this morning, when it was quite dark. Spiers thought at first that his tyre had pinched a stone which struck the mail box, but he realised after that the road is bitumenised. On his return journey he discovered a bullet hole in the mail box, and he reported it to the police. Shortly after, the owner of the mail box, A. Matheson, arrived at Ihe Police Station with a. bullet, but later his wife reported that she had observed the hole in the box a day or two days ago. Yet. it is strange that the bullet was not, discovered before. It is possible that Spiers heard a shot and that the bullet struck another object. The police are pursuing enquiries.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 August 1931, Page 2
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186MYSTERIOUS SHOTS Greymouth Evening Star, 27 August 1931, Page 2
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