PERMANENT INJURY
GIRL SHOT BY LOVER
TE AWAMUTU CASE
(By Telegraph.—Press-, •Association1.-):
HAMILTON, 21st April.
Frank ...Tames Eerr,-"4l^years = '6f' age, a carpenter, was charged.to-day .vHth the attempted murder of.-. Gertrude Alice West, 19 years of age, at-Te' Awamutu,, on 24th January. . r .V c •: :r Miss West is still in the Waikato Hospital undergoing treatment for a shotwound in her side, which has not,yet healed, and the- Court was held in the patient's waiting r00m.':.,: .-■ .; :- ; Miss West said.she had known; Kerr for nine months; Jie had worked.for :her father. He had made, love : to her,.but. had never asked, her to marry him. Her parents .had asked: him" to discontinue visiting ithe house. • On the morning of 24th January, he stopped her ; on -.the street and asked for ..another chance. She answered ."No." Later/he- called 'at the house, and, entering- the kitchen, asked . her if '. she would like • -ay- young rabbit. She made iio answer;;--; ? , Her mother told her to inf army her, fathqr that; Kerr was therey \: As she returned from the.dairy Kerr sh'ot-her.;inythp.side-with a gun. . ■■ '" : .•.:.-. •':[, ?■■:- :;.:':■■ \ Dr. Hockin said: the: girl, wus :out of danger, but would, suffer permanent- injury, as a large portion of the outor ■wall'of the abdomen had been destroyed. Two complete wads .and a,number of, pellets, werofound in the.wound v The case was-adjourned, to-Te. Awaf mutu to-morrow. '' ... .:■■.'.:■: .:■:'.:'■.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 94, 22 April 1931, Page 11
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