SHOT BY HIS SON

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 53, 3 March 1919, Page 6

SHOT BY HIS SON

UURITfG FAMILY QXTARHet INJURIES NOT SERIOUS, (By Telegraph.—Prese Association.) WESTPORT, Sunday ■ Further details of the arreet of pL rick Walshe, aged 22 years, at Burnett' Face on Saturday, on a charge of doin! grievous bodily harm to his father Pa rick Walshe, show that the lather ait mother had a disagreement, and Walsh jun., took his mother's part. 'n* 1 the father turned on the eon. n? mother pushed the latter into a b»L room, and as the father was get in the door, the ioother went rounds the window to help the son out. Th father rushed round and tried to m hold of the son through the window and it is alleged that the son, usim,, revolver, fired two shots, one boim through his father's cheek and loderL i? his tongue, and the other beinVtr bedded in the breast. Walsh, sea! »v removed to the hospital, where, it is cob! |sidered, his injuries are not very eeriow! COMMITTED FOR TRIAL (Ety Telegraph.—Press Association.) WESTPORT, this for It is stated that John Walshe aftw hie father fell to the ground, went to i neighbour's house and awaited arrest by a constable, who took him into on! to-day. Walshe, sen., was moved t» Denniston Hospital. His face wonndk not serious, but the chest wound is be. lieved to be dangerous. Young Wiljlu was brought in custody to Westport on Saturday evening, and lodged in pr W I This morning: he was brought before tl I Magistrate's Court, charged with dom actual grievous bodily harm. He was n. manded till March 13, no hail btij» asked for, ' ™ Inquiries as to the condition el Walshe, sen., show t]?at a dangeroni hemorrhage has set in from the chert wound.