Friday, May 11, 2012

JOKE THAT MISCARRIED.



INTRUDERS IN CHINESE SHOP. FIRED ON BY OWNER. ONE WOUNDED IN THE LEG. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HAWERA, this day. The ''Star's" Patea correspondent telegraphs that the peace of Patca was dig. turbed about 11 o'clock last night by the sound of discharging firearms. Wong, a fruiterer in Egmont Street, when retiring to bed heard sounds of his back window opening, and shortly after heard the footsteps of two men within the building. Wong loaded a revolver and went to the door of the room whence the sound came. All was in darkness. He called out two or three times "Hands up." Thrre was no response to the demand, and Wong fired at the floor. He again challenged without result and again fired, but this time hit one of the intruders in the leg. The other, who was unwounded, made a hasty exit. The wounded man came to Wong who, keeping him covered, switched on the light in the shop and ordered the man off the premises. The wounded man is now in hospital. The affair seems to have started in a joke to frighten Wong. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 299, 15 December 1923, Page 6

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