CHASED WITH TOMAHAWK.
TELEGRAPH MESSENGER’S PLIGHT. PURSUED BY DRUNKEN lIAiVK;.!' (Special to Dailt Times.) AUCKLAND,. May 3. Suffering from depressed spirits as tlnrosult of an unsuccessful day’s hawking vesterdav, Arthur Frank Cook consoled himself ”hv consuming more “firewater” than might have been advisable under the circumstances. Then ho must have thought he was a Red Indian, for, sighting a telegraph message boy in the railway entrance, ho drew a tomahawk, which he had picked up somewhere in his traiols ho had nc idea where —and dashed in pursuit. Iho hoy fled round tho Post Office with the would-be Redskin in hot pursuit. It was at this stage that Constable Riley came and, as a result, in tho £ ohc< Court this morning. Cook, who is 35 year of age, was charged with using threatei ing behaviour in a railway entrance e with stealing a tomahawk, val.cd at r ‘‘lt, was his fi-M dev - good,’’ Senior Sergeant Edwards explained, referring to Cook’s bawi-mig. The Redskin and tomahawk »::a: Cool: £3, with an alternative of 10 ■!; in gaol.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20089, 4 May 1927, Page 10
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175CHASED WITH TOMAHAWK. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20089, 4 May 1927, Page 10
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