DEATH IN A FOUNTAIN PEN.
A weapon shaped like a fountain pen, but said to be capable of firing a gas-filled container forty yards 1 , lias been discovered by the Sydney police. Detectives were recently told that a man well-known to them was carrying a pistol. They searched him but found no firearm. “That’s a nice fountain pen in your pocket,” a detective remarked casually. “Yes,” was the reply, “it was n present,” and the man calmly went on smoking while the detective examined the pen. Suddenly the detective touched a filler spring and the top flew open. Then it was’ revealed that the pen was really a new type of weapon containing a gas-filled cartridge which at a distance of forty yards would render a man unconscious.. Two loaded cartridges were seized but the man was released, as the police had no power to detain him. It is believed that the weapon was brought from Germany or the United States.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 51, 27 January 1933, Page 9
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161DEATH IN A FOUNTAIN PEN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 51, 27 January 1933, Page 9
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