A MAN WITH A REVOLVER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13191, 31 May 1906, Page 5

A MAN WITH A REVOLVER.

♦ THREE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] Wellington, ' Wednesday. Hi is a notorious impostor," said SubInspector O'Douovan, at the Police Court yesterday morning, of a young man named (jrcorue Allain. who was proved to the satisfaction of the magistrate to have gone to the Theatre Royal about four o'clock on the previous afternoon, challenged a workman s named Daniel .T. Pearson to fight, and then to have placed a revolver under his nose. Pearson knocked the weapon aside, and the defendant walked away, saying ho would ~ roturn later and settle Pearson and his mate. Late in the evening a constable arrested the defendant for drunkenness in Molesworth- ; street, and subsequently, at the police station, found a revolver and several cartridges in his handbag. The charge on which he was brought before the Court was one of drunkenness whilst in possession of firearms and ammunition. Sub-Inspector O'Douovan said the defendant only came out of gaol ,the previous morning, after having served 12 months for six cases of false pretences. He had a long list of previous convictions, and before being sent to gaol on the last occasion was accustomed to terrify peon'" with a revolver which ho carried about with him. Dr. A. McArthur. S.M.; imposed ? sentence of three months' imprisonment, with hard , labour. . '