WAITARA SHOOTING AFFAIR.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 144, 17 December 1908, Page 5

WAITARA SHOOTING AFFAIR.

DEATH OF MRS KLENNER, rPRE-8 ASSOCIATION.] NEW PLYMOUTH, last night.. Mrs Kleriher, who was shot at Waitara on Monday, died this even-: ing shortly before 7 o'clock. She was conscious, till within a few minutes of death. . ■ • '• Tlie doctors experienced- difficulty in supplying nourishment, owing to ; the injury to the throat. Both bul-'i lets were embedded in the back of the neck', presumably pressing on the vertebrae. One'.buliet fractured the jaw and the other entered the neck,' severing the windpipe.

Dr Goode, who was arrested on Monday for shooting MrsKlenner, has been in practice in Waitara for about 11 years (says the, i ; Taranaki Daily News). He is probably about 60 years of age, and is very wellknown throughout the district. Prior to settling down in Waitara, ho practised in other parts of the dominion, in Australia for some years,- and is said also to have been in South America. He is a married man, but has no family.