AUCKLAND SENSATION.
DETECTIVE FIRED AT. MAN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER. AUCKLAND, June 14. A sensational affair took place about mid-day to-day in a house in Great South Road, Ellerslie. Detective Nalder and Acting-Detective Power had occasion to interview a man named Athol George Beamish White. It is understood that when both officers went into the room White picked up a gun and shot at Power, the bullet narrowly missing him. Detective Nalder immediately seized White and took him to the City Police Station, where he was charged with attempting to murder Orme Snow Wilson Power. White, who is 25 years of age, appeared before Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., at the Police Court thia afternoon. Chief-Detective Cummings asked for a remand until to-morrow, which was granted. White then said: “I thought he was trying to put me back in the asylum. That’s why I tried to murder him. That’s as good as murdering me, to put me back in the asylum.” The Magistrate asked accused-to repeat this statement, and advised the Clerk of the Court and the Chief-Detec-tive to take a note of what White sail. White did so, and all that he said was transferred to paper.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 15 June 1927, Page 5
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