A LOADED FIREARM

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 September 1927, Page 5

A LOADED FIREARM

. PRESENTED AT DETECTIVE. ACCUSED SENT TO GAOL. Timaru, September 28. At the Magistrate’s Court. Janies Husband, aged 25. was charged with that, on September 27 at Claremont, he did unlawfully present a loaded firearm at Detective Robert James Walker when the latter interviewed him on another charge. The accus ed pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Gibson said the accused, had been suspected by Walker of forgery, and the latter had consequently interviewed him. The accused agreed to accompany the detective. but when the latter’s hat blew off the accused bolted. The detective ultimately found him in a gully, when Husband brandished a loaded gun and presented it at the detective, keeping the latter at bav for an hour. At the end of that period the detective was able to persuade the accused to desist and ac company him quietly The accused said he wa s out shooting rabbits. He did not know what made him load the wexnon when he was running away. He may have "had rata.” He had no intention of firing at the detective. The accused was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment on the first charge, and on the charge of forgerWas remanded until Friday.