SHOTS IN THE DARK
ATTACK ON MOTORIST
A MARROW ESCAPE
(By Telegraph,—Press Association.)
"WANGANUI, This Day
A sensatio.il has been caused at Upokongaro '.by two rifle shots having been fired at the car of Mr. J. Higgins, a well-known settler, when he was returning from .Parakino, on the Wanganui River Road, shortly after midnight on Sunday incoming. The shots were fired at a benil near Pungaraehu, and both passed thorough the windscreen, drilling holes about a quarter of an inch apart, and missing Mr. Higgins by a fraction of an. inch.
It is thought that robbery was the motive, but that the highwayman intended to get a Wanganui tradesman who is known,to farry substantial sums of money and who passes along the road at all hours of the night.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 66, 20 March 1933, Page 9
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129SHOTS IN THE DARK Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 66, 20 March 1933, Page 9
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