AN UNLOADED GUN.
PRISONER AND SHERIFF. OTTAWA. June 20. In a desperate attempt to prevent being taken to prison for lashes and the balance of a two-year sentence for assaulting a girl, William Langley. of Frederickton, New Brunswick, held up the sheriff with a gun until the sheriff's wife shouted that there were no cartridges in it. Langley was then captured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19677, 1 July 1927, Page 11
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61AN UNLOADED GUN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19677, 1 July 1927, Page 11
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