STRUGGLE IN HOUSE IN TAURANGA
SHOTGUN ALLEGEDLY FIRED NEIGHBOURS ENTER HOUSE AT SOUND OF SHOTS l Per Pie.s Associalion. I TAURANGA, July 30. Screaming of children and shots from a gun disturbed residents of Durham Street at 7 o'clock last night. Messrs. Joe and Allan Faulkner rushed into the residence of Mr. C. F. Mabey and found him struggling to" wrest a gun from his son-in-law. Andrew Ferguson. Mr. Snowden, who lives nearby, also rushed in and escorted Ferguson to the police station. Mi-. Mabey, who is elderly, suffered no injury. In the Police Court to-day Andrew Ferguson was chargea with discharging a double-barrelled shotgun at Charles Thomas Mabey with intent to do grievous bodily harm and also with presenting a firearm at Mabey. On the application or the police he was remanded till August 2.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 178, 31 July 1940, Page 6
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