ARMED SEARCHERS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 129, 13 March 1936, Page 3

ARMED SEARCHERS

MAN WOUNDS FATHER-IN-LAW. SEVERAL REVOLVER SHOTS. (Per Press Association.) MASTEHTON, March. 12. An armed posse of nearly 20 detectives and constables carried out a search throughout to-day for Stanley Charles Maisey, a married man aged about 26 years, who fired a revolver at his father-in-law, Anthony Conwell, a farmer, of Dalefield, wounding him in the face. Maisey, who is well known in the district, where he lived for a number of years, was released from a mental hospital last June. He was separated from his wile and had been working in the Tauranga district. Early! this morning, Maisey called at his father-in-law’s farm, where his wife and small child were living. He met Conwell at the cowbail, and asked if he could see his wife. When Conwell turned to go to the house to tell his wife and Mrs Maisey, Maisey suddenly fired a shot at him with a revolver. He missed, and Conwell continued on his way to the house; but just before he reached the back door Maisey fired several more shots, one of which struck Conwell in the side of the face. The injured; man staggered but managed to get inside the house, the doors of which were immediately locked. Mrs Maisey was telephoning the Carterton police when Maisey saw her through a window. He then fired ifiore shots and broke the window with a stone. He called out to his wife asking her not to tell the police or a doctor anything about the affray, and saying that he would clear out for good. Maisey then disappeared. He was seen in Carterton about 8 a.m., and again on the main Carterton-Wellington Hoad.

A police party in the charge of Sergeant T. H. Dyer (Masterton) and Detective-Sergeant L. Revpll (Wellington) carried out a wide but unsuccessful search for the wanted man during the afternoon. Late in the day, it was learned that a man closely resembling Maisey had boarded a service car going to Wellington about 11 o’clock in the morning. This man is said to have left the car in Featherston Street, Wellington. Maisey’s overcoat was found in a plantation near where he was supposed to > have stopped the service car. At a late hour, nothing had been heard of him.