PENALTY OF TRESPASS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 5 July 1926, Page 9

PENALTY OF TRESPASS.

BOY SHOT IU BACK, A MAN ARRESTED. I From Oar Own Correspondent.; SYDNEY. July 1. A strantie story was told to the Newi astle police subsequent to the admission to Newcastle Hospital of a fifteen-year-old boy named Arthur Morrison on Sunday afternoon. Morrison, who lived in Everton Street. Hamilton, received serious injuries as a result of being hit in the back by a charge of gunshot. Hie story, corroborated by that of two companions, is that Morrison was fired at by a man. on whose property the boys hail evidently been trespassinz. They allege that they had set a "bird trap in some semi-cultivated land in Murderer's Gully, near Glenrock Lagoon. They sat down under a tree to eat their lunch, when they saw a man carrying a double-barrelled jun approaching." When he was some distance oft. the man shouted something they could not hear, anil at the same time raised his gun and shot at them. One of the lads. Alfred Steere, received a slight gunshot wound in the shoulder, but neither of the others was injured at that time. Leaping to their feet, the boys raced towards an adjacent fence, separating the cultivated land from a stretch of open country. Morrison "had his clothing eau_ht in the barbed wire, while getting through the fence, and when he released himself his companions were many yards away. Morri_on had gone only 1.3 yards in pursuit of them when a shot was fired from the tenee by the pursuing stranger. Morrison screamed, threw up his hands, and sank to the ground. The other lads returned to his asdstanee, and carried Morrison, who was unable to walk, to the Merewether tram terminus, a distance of about a mile. trom the terminus he was taken to hospital by trann-ar. and was admtted there in a serious condition. After hearing the story plain clothes police went to Murderer's Guliy and made an arrest.