BURST OF SHOTS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 8, 9 July 1935, Page 10

BURST OF SHOTS

SENSATIONAL STORY

WATCHMAN FIRED AT

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, This Day. What appears to have been a deliberate attempt at murder is to have been made last night on a road just off the waterfront road. Mr. William Palmer, aged 45 employed as gatekeeper by the Harbour^Board, was cycling to work at about 10 o'clock on the road leading on to the waterfront road. He noticed a motorcar, without lights, drawn up at the side of the' road. He passed it, and had not proceeded far when shots, were fired at him. , .• According to Mr. Palmer, who has had military experience, the shots sounded like a "burst" from an automatic pistol. The bullets passed close by him, and he decided on the instant to cycle on to the brightly-lit waterfront road, hoping to meet someone who could call the police. He stopped a car and asked the driver to telephone the police, and then himself cycled on to the city to the police station. , On receiving his report, the police immediately dispatched a squad of detectives and police, and they found two bullets in a door of a boatshed fronting on the road at the spot where Mr. Palmer had reported that the shots were fired. It appears certain that the shots were fired by someone hiding among trees at the foot of the cliff on the opposite side of the road from the boatshed. Mr. Palmer did not see his assailant as he cycled on. The police are today busily investigating the circumstances. Mr. Palmer is commander of a squadron of the Legion of Frontiersmen.