WAGGA MYSTERY
MURDER TRIAL WITNESS
SHOT IN HEAD FROM AMBUSH
MAY DIE ANY MINUTE
United Press Association—By Electric- Tela-
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(Received May 11, noon.)
SYDNEY, This Day,
Moncrieff Anderson, 33, a Crown witness in the trial of Edward' Henry Morey, on a charge of murdering Percy Smith, was.shot in the head last night at Wagga. Tho bullet presumably lodged in the brain. Doctors say that he is likely to die any minute.
Anderson was with his wife and child drawing water from a horse trough in a lane when a shot was fired from the cover of a large tree.
The body of an unknown man was found in the Murrumbidgee Elver near Pomingalarua Common, about five miles west of Wagga, on December 26. The head was terribly injured and a chaff bag had been thrown over the head,- arms, and trunk. Death had evidently occurred about two months previously, and the body had been thrown, in the river afterwards. At first the chance of solving the mystery appeared hopeless, but on January 3 the man was identified as Percy Smith, a shearer, believed to have been a native of Cai-lton, Victoria, i
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1934, Page 7
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193WAGGA MYSTERY Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1934, Page 7
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