STRUGGLE WITH POLICE
ACCUSED MAN USES KNIFE By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, June 24. When a man named Walter Phillip Hailes (31), pleaded guilty to-day to six charges of fraud by using valueless cheques, the police said that on June 13th two detectives went to his house to interview him. He suddenly cut his throat with a breadknife, and still holding the knife he fought the detectives until he was overpowered. He tried to stab one detective, who had a hand cut. Accused was taken to hospital, and was there till Monday last. Accused was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, followed by one year’s reformative detention.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19525, 26 June 1933, Page 2
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105STRUGGLE WITH POLICE Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19525, 26 June 1933, Page 2
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