Settlers Drink at Pistol Point
IRISH HOSPITALITY MIGRANT’S ESCAPADE Press Association THAMES, To-day. The story of how a young North of Ireland immigrant had forced a bench full of Hikutaia settlers to accompany him to an hotel and have a drink at the point of a revolver was told at the Thames Police Court to-day, when Andrew Bailey, aged 21, a Salvation Army immigrant, faced seven charges in connection with the possession of an unregistered firearm, and one of assault. After hearing the police story that Bailey merely thought himself a youthful desperado when in drink, Mr. F. W. Platts, S.M., convicted him on all charges and ordered him to come up for sentence any time within a year. He was also prohibited.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 507, 9 November 1928, Page 1
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