RABBITER ON TRIAL
Alternative Charges (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 7. The trial began in the Supreme Court today of Gordon Clifford Reynolds, aged 25, a rabbiter, who faces alternative charges of attempted murder of his brother, Douglas Reynolds, wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and injuring in circumstances that if death had been caused he would have been guilty of manslaughter. Mr W. R. Birks, with him Mr J. H. C. Larsen, appear for the Crown and Mr I. A. Borrin for the accused. The Chief Justice (Sir Harold Barrowclough) is presiding. In evidence along the lines of that given in the Magistrate’s Court on March 27, the complainant, his father, and a police constable described events at Paraparaumu on the night of February 2, w’hen Douglas Reynolds suffered knife wounds alleged to have been inflicted by his brother. A doctor who was called to the scene testified that when he saw the complainant he thought he would be lucky to reach hospital alive.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30125, 8 May 1963, Page 16
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