"MANIA FOR FIREARMS"
Described as a youth with a mania for firearms, James Hartwell, aged 18, of Bournemouth, England, was sent to Borstal for three years at Winchester City Quarter Sessions the other day. Hartwell pleaded guilty to attempting to break into a Winchester gunsmith's shop, the glass door of which he smashed with a brick at night. Earlier a piece of glass had been found blown out of the door by a shot from an air pistol. Ho agreed that an air pistol found hidden in a partly-erected building was his property and that he took all the money he had in the bank to buy the pistol. The Recorder took into account the fact that Hartwell was on probation for the theft of two pistols from a shop in Bournemouth in November last.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22344, 15 February 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)
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