TEA GAS PISTOL.
FOUND ON ALLEGED THIEF. FIRST WEAPON OF ITS KIND SEEN IN SYDNEY. (Received Friday, 11.51 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 17. I “You have got me. These are the goods,” Norman Hardy, aged 21, is alleged to have stated to a police officer who arrested him after to-day’s jewel robbery. The police state that the man had a tear-gas pistol, the first ever seen in Sydney. It was loaded with cartridges containing a chemical which, according to the police, might quite easily blind a man.
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Wairarapa Age, 18 August 1934, Page 5
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