LANDLADY SCARED
.MAORI. PUT ON PROBATION
(Special to “Northern Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, Monday.
Daniel Paul, a Maori, aged 47, pleaded guilty this morning when charged with pointing an unloaded revolver at a woman, also to four other minor charges arising out of the same incident.
Sergeant S. A. Brown said Paul was a married man with ten children. Last Monday night he put a hood over his head and face, and, taking an empty service revolver, which he had brought home from the war, went to the rear of his landlady’s house- in Trafalgar Street, Onehunga. When she opened the door, in answer to his knock, he presented the revolver at her. As soon as she felt the touch of the weapon she' screamed. Paul ran away, but was (‘aught by a pedestrian, who was passing at the time. On the major, charge Paul was convicted and admitted to probation for two years. For being in possession of an unlicensed firearm he was fined 10/. He was also prohibited for twelve mouths.
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Northern Advocate, 3 May 1932, Page 6
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171LANDLADY SCARED Northern Advocate, 3 May 1932, Page 6
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