PLAYING RED INDIANS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19831, 4 May 1927, Page 11

PLAYING RED INDIANS

AN EXCITING EPISODE i j FIREWATER AND A TOMAHAWK : (Special to ‘ 1 Chronicle. ”) ; AUCKLAND, May 3. , Suffering from depressed spirits as! the result of an unsuccessful day’s' hawking yesterday, Arthur Frank Cook consoled himself by consuming more firewater than might have been advisable under the circumstances. Then he must have thought he was | a Red Indian, for, sighting a telegraph ' messenger boy in the railway entrance, ■he drew a tomahawk which he had i picked up somewhere in his travels—he had no idea where—and dashed in pursuit. The boy fled‘round the Post Office with the would-be Redskin in hot pursuit. It was at this stage that Constable Riley came along and as a result, in the Police Court this morning. Cook, who is aged 35, was charged with using threatening behaviour in the railway entrance and with stealing a tomahawk (owner unknown) valued at ss. “It was his first day out and he did no good,” Senior-Sergeant Edwards explianed, referring to Cook’s hawking. The redskin and tomahawk affair cost Cook £3, with an alternative of ten days in gaol.