LOADED REVOLVER
ALARM CAUSED IN LIBRARY DETECTIVES ACCOST YOUTH [by telegraph—press association] CHRISTCHURCH. Friday The activities of a youth who brandished a loaded revolver in the Canterbury Public Library during the last few days, were. stopped by detectives this afternoon. The quietuess of the library is rarely broken by any excitement, but the, sight of the youth waving a revolver and showing it to his friends began to cause some alarm to the staff. The alarm was increased when it was discovered on a recent evening that tho revolver was loaded. Further visits by the youth, who made the reference room his headquarters, were ; decidely' unwelcome, and this afternoon the matter was reported to tho police; After the youth had left the library, detectives arrived, and the youth was found with a revolver in his possession near the library. It was loaded in one chamber at the time.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23055, 4 June 1938, Page 14
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