BUSHRANGING STUNTS.
* A YOUTH’S ADVENTURES. THE IMPRESSIONABLE AGE. [Pke pRW«a Association.] DUNEDIN, September 18. At Baidu tba to-day a lad named M’Coobe, seventeen years of age, was charged with making a threatening display with firearms and using threatening words with intent to alarm persons in a dwelling-house. It is alleged that the lad secured a rifle, ammunition and food at Tawanui on Sunday, and, after spending two nights in the bush, went to the house of a .settler named Wilson. On Tuesday, after dinner, it is stated, he went outside and immediately returned with the rifle, which he is alleged to have presented at the inmates,' with the words, “Hands up!” Wilson secured possession of the rifle, and, after removing eleven cartridges from the magazine, returned it to the lad, who was arrested a little later.' The accused was -remanded till September 26. It is understood that lie had been reading a number of bushranging stories- j.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12749, 19 September 1919, Page 5
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