SHOOTING AFFRAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 103, 1 May 1894, Page 3

SHOOTING AFFRAY.

A FARMER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.

HIS DYING DEPOSITIONS TAKEN.

Bathurst, April 17. A serious shooting affray occurred to-day on the Vale Road, four miles out of town, when a farmer named George Mills Kable was shob by an old resident named James Brady, who lived alone in a hut opposite the Orton Park Poat-

office. William Kable, father of the injured man, witnessed the occurrence. He stabod that he was going to Babhursb with show exhibits, and as the road was boggy he made a detour to cross a plot of ground occupied by Brady, and which he had been crossing for some time. B,rady had resented the practice, and had frequently cautioned people against contin v ing it, "among others to receive the caution being George liable. Brady threatened Kable with punishment, but Kable treated the threat as idle words. As Che team arrived at the eliprails close to the hut where Brady dwells, Ophir Kable, a brother of George Kablo, proceeded to take down the rails, but Brady came out and said, " Don't pull down thab rail or I will shoot you." The man returned to the hut, and at thoto moment George Kable called oat, "Take no notice of him," and jumped over the wheel, _ landing close to Brady, who had again come out of the hut, having in his hand either a revolver or a pistol. Without saying any more George Kable .vent on to take down the sliprails, and as he did co Brady, pointing the weapon at him, fired. The contents entered George's body near the stomach. The wounded man fell prostrate. His father and brother drove with him to Dr. W. Fritcharch Bassett's surgery in Georgo-street, and thence to the Hospital, where it was found the bullet was embedded in the muscles of the back, entering the region of the abdomen. The bullet a leaden one, weighing aboub 2oz, I was extracted. It had evidently been discharged a«*> close quarters. ■ The pabiv™6 ia in a very cnfcical condl: tion The police subsequently arrested jirady, who states that the shooting was | accidental.

Interviewed ab the hospital -the wounded man stated thab he was coming to Bathursb by the road used by the public for a long time. He heard Brady say bo his brobher Ophir, "If you go bhrough there I'll shoot you." He wonb up bo speak to Brady and asked him why he prevenbed people going bhrough. Brady replied, "If you dare to go through I'll Bhoob you." Kable was about to take down the top rail when Brady, holding in his hand what appeared to be an old horse pistol, repeated, "If you go through there I'll shoob. you." Being within reaching distance, Kable pub oub his hand with the intention of knocking up the weapon. He just touched ib slightly with hia fingers when it waa discharged, bhe ball entering the stomach. The dying depositions of George Kable were taken at the hospital shortly after the bullet had been extracted.