A "HOLD-UP" ALLEGED.
LAD WTTH LOADED RIFLE. [FT TELEGRAPH. rRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN. Thursday. A lad 17 years of age was charged at Balclutha with making a threatening display with firearms and using threatening words with intent to alarm persons in a dwelling-house. It is alleged that the lad secured a rifle, ammunition and food on Sunday, and after spending two nights in the bush went to the house of a settler named Wilson on Tuesday after dinner. It is stated that he went outside and immediately returned with a rifle, which he is alleged to have presented at the inmates, with the words, " Hands up !" Wilson secured possession of the rifle, and after removing 11 cartridges from the magazine returned it to the lad, who was arrested a little later. Accused was remanded till September 26.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17269, 19 September 1919, Page 9
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136A "HOLD-UP" ALLEGED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17269, 19 September 1919, Page 9
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