A FEILDING SHOOTING CASE
♦ This morning Inspector Pender" received a telegram from Pahiatua notifying the arrest there, by Detective Bishop and Constable Minogue, of Thomas and Annie Looney, a previous telegram having advised him that they were " wanted " on a charge of shooting with intent at Ernest Fraser, at Waituna, near Fielding, on Wednesday. They left afterwards for Pahiatua, and were followed thither by the police. No particulars of the nature of the shooting have as yet been received at headquarters. Our Pahiatua correspondent telegraphs to the same effect as the police advice, and adds that the Looneys have been remanded to Fielding. Annie Looney and her father, it will be recollected, perpetrated a sensational shooting affair at Feilding last year, in which Dr. Gharltor got in the way of bullet fired by the girl. The jury disagreed on the first trial, and after a second trial they were found Guilty of shooting " without intent," a verdict which was subsequently set aside by the Court of Appeal. The. girl has since been confined in an asylum, but she was recently released. Two of her brothers were sentenced at the recent criminal sittings of the Supreme Court in Wellington for maiming sheep.
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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1898, Page 6
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201A FEILDING SHOOTING CASE Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1898, Page 6
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