LADY CYCLIST SHOT AT.
BY TWO YOUTHS: ONE MASKED. Auckland, Wednesday. A youth. Arthur Dunn, 23 years of age, was charged at the Police Court today with having assaulted Emma Butcher on .Sunday, April 27. Mrs. Butcher said that she was cycling out to St. Helier's Bay on Sunday afternoon, and got off her machine at St. John's College. She noticed two lads approaching her, one of them being Dunn. The other was a somewhat taller lad, and had a black handkerchief over his face, masking it. These two had passed her some seven or eight yards when one of them called: "Hands up!" and then Dunn fired a revolver over her head. She at once got on lier bicycle and cycled away. She had frequently sceen Dunn, and knew him by sight, but she did not know the other lad. After proceeding some distance she heard two more shots fired. For the defence an attempt was made to prove an alibi. It was also stated that accused was simple-minded, and was too much afraid of firearms to handle fjiem.: Dunn was convicted, and ordered to 'come up for sentence when called upon, his mother and brother entering into a bond for his good behaviour.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 316, 30 May 1913, Page 5
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