THE PONSONBY MURDER
ACCUSED BEFORE THE COURT. REMANDED TILL NEXT WEEK. PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION-. AUCKLAND,. March 18. : A period of .iereDsh.-activity on. the part of the Auckland police in picking up, a , following all available dues, in connection with. what is known as tne I’bnsonhy murder ended yesterday afternoon in. -.the. arrest of the young man Dennis Gunn at a locality m Newton within a mile of the scene of the murder. The courthouse'Was crowded with spectators .when . the prisoner was brought before Mr J. E. Wilson, S.M., this morning. ■: A considerable number of curious people, including Press photographers,’ unostentatiously equipped with cameras, waited outside the courthouse.” " • - ■ ” When accused came before the magistrate in the crowded, courtroom iio was charged “that on Saturday last ha murdered . Augustus Edward Braithwaite and also that ho broke and entered the Ponsonbv post office pnji stole, ■£97.’’- " ;■ ’■ • Cliief-Detective McMahon, requested a remand until Friday of next week and H'is Worship ncceding-the prisoner was back in the detention room after having been little more than a minute in the public gaaot"' 1 ■
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10542, 19 March 1920, Page 5
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177THE PONSONBY MURDER New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10542, 19 March 1920, Page 5
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