A LETTER FROM POWELKA.
"TO THE MANHUNTERS OF ASHHURST." The police found a letter, signed by Pow'elka, and written on a dirty scrap of paper, with a blunt pencil or piece of lead, in a billy on the gatepost at Mr Grammar's place at Ashhurst on Sunday morning. Powelka complains in the letter that he is being blamed for things he did not do. He denies having set fire to "the two-storey house in Palmerston," and goes on to say that he was in hiding within a few feet of Mr P. Hanlon, his brother-in-law, when the latter made a remark to a constable who w r as with him that he (Powelka) had shot at his wife twice. Powelka denies having fired at Mrs Powelka. The note was addressed to "the manhunters of Ashhurst."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 9187, Issue XLI, 11 April 1910, Page 5
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135A LETTER FROM POWELKA. Manawatu Standard, Volume 9187, Issue XLI, 11 April 1910, Page 5
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