GIRL SHOT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 9

GIRL SHOT.

HASTINGS SENSATION.

SEQUEL TO LATE PARTY.

retired man arrested.

ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE,

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

HASTINGS, this day.

As the outcome of a sensational shooting incident at 1 o'clock this morning. Miss Mavis Steele Smith, aged 23, the daughter of Mr. Alfred Thomas Smith, of Pakowhai Road, was admitted to hospital suffering from grave wounds to the head and back. Her injuries, were allegedly caused by Herbert Frederick Nunn, aged 43, of Havelock North. It is not improbable that the girl will succumb to her injuries.

Nunn appeared before Mr. T. B. McNeill, S.M., in the Police Court ut Hastings this morning, and was formally charged with attempted murder. IJe was remanded for a week.

Accused, who is said to have a wife and child in Wellington, is retired and of comfortable means. He is a wellknown identity of Hastings, p

It appears that the girl, who has been receiving Nunn's attentions for some time, drove home in the care of a male friend, who said good-night and drove away. She had almost reached the door of her home when a shot rang out. It is supposed at the present moment that Nunn was lying waiting in the grounds till the girl returned home from a party she had attended. Miss, Smith's parents heard the shot, which was fired from an ordinary shotgun, and' rushed outside. They found the girl lying four paces away from the house, parts of which had been struck by shot. She was semi-conscious, but was able .11 utter Nunn's name.

Senior-Sergeant Carroll and Detective Farquharson arrested Nunn several hours later, at his home in Havelock North.

]S T unn is ' a quiet man, and has been working for some weeks as a voluntary clerk in connection with the earthquake relief work.