“WANTED A MACHINE-GUN'
YOUNG BURGLAR AT NAPIER HAD STUDIED CHICAGO METHODS. GUILT ON SIX CHARGES ADMITTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Aug. 21. “I wanted, to get a machine-gun at this stage, as I ha.d studied the methods of the .Chicago gun gangs and I wanted to fit i machine-gun in the back of the car as t means of defence should I be pursued; bj the police at any time.’’ The above passage is one of the declara tions of a startling nature contained in ,th< statement to the police of Fred Matthews, alias Leslie Scott, aged 21 years, who 'appeared at the Napier Police Court this morning before Messrs. A. E. Redford and R. Hay Chapman, justices of the. peace, faced with six charges of breaking and entering,
Matthews pleaded guilty , and was committed for sentence.
Prisoner was one of a party arrested some weeks ago, but he made his escape from a car while on the way to the police station. 1 . -'i-
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1931, Page 11
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