Milk Bottle Incident Leads To Shots

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31974, 29 April 1969, Page 30

Milk Bottle Incident Leads To Shots

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 28, The Supreme Court was told today that a man fired at two youths and injured them after money had lieen taken from his milk bottles.

Joseph Maunseil, aged 51. a shop assistant, pleaded not! guilty to three alternative charges. He is charged that on No-i vetnber 3 last year he dis-j charged a firearm with intent to injure Johnson Marsh and Allan Brian McPhee, that he discharged a firearm with reckless disregard for the safety of others, and that he injured the two youths under, I circumstances that if death! had been caused he would (have been guilty of manslaughter. The trial is before Mr Justice North and a jury of eight men and four women. Mr C. M. Nicholson appears for the Crown; Mr P. A. Williams appears for Maunseil. Mr Nicholson said that on Sunday evening. November 3 last, some youths were walk-

. ing along a street in Freemans Bay. 1 A girl in the group took some money from milk -bottles on the accused's •j veranda. ! The accused shouted after [ her but she went away. She ! went to a hostel where she J saw the two youths Marsh ’ and McPhee. ;i She gave the money to ' them and they started back, ' 1 to the street to return the 1 money to Maunseil. Evidence would be that they saw Maunseil but as they - approached him he fired two I shots at them. Marsh received . two wounds to his head and ila pellet was later taken from •! one wound. McPhee had an abrasion. r Police visited the accused’s I (home and took possession of -|a double-barrelled shotgun.