POLICE KNOW FACTS
WOUNDING OF WITNESS
MELBOURNE, November 30. The chief of the criminal investigation branch, Superintendent Brophy, said that the shooting of James Dugan was not an accident. The police now had full details and would clear the matter up in a few days.
A cable published yesterday stated that James Dugan, aged 18, one of the Crown witnesses in proceedings last week in a case in which three men were charged with the murder on January 31 of James Edward Scriyen, a Titles Office messenger, walked into the casualty department of a hospital late on Saturday night with a superficial bullet wound in his thigh. Dugan said he had been wounded accidentally, and declined to state where the mishap occurred. After treatment Dugan left the hospital in company with detectives. Dugan's evidence at the trial was that he repaired the handle of a revolver which was found after Scriven was shot.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 9
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