TERRIFIED CHILDREN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19094, 12 August 1925, Page 17

TERRIFIED CHILDREN.

A MAN POINTS A GUN. NO MONEY FOR A FINE. [EY TfcLEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] NEW PLYMOUTH. Tuesday. How am I going to make an order for costs against a man who has only got 10s in tliis world ?" asked Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., at the Stratford Court, after having convicted a poorly-clad old man on two charges of pointing a gun at a number of chi'-lren. The accused was George Gibbs Speck, who is well known in Midhurst. A number of children, whose ages ranged from five to eleven years, told the Court that while on their way to tho Denbigh school recently Speck presented a gun at them in the attitude of one about to fire a shot. Tho children were frightened and ran to school to complain to the teacher. William Mills, aged eight, said he was going to school by himself when Speck accosted him and hissed, "Somo people have told mo to shoot you." Speck said ho was working for a man on the York Road. Sometimes he received no wages, and at other times his employer gave him 5s a week. He maintained that the gun was empty and 'that he only pointed it at some ducks. The Magistrate, to Sergeant Reid: What is tho matter with the man ?—Oh. he is a simple kind of fellow. Accused admitted that ho only had about 10s, whereupon an order was made confiscating the gun, accused being convicted without costs. I