SHOT IN SIDE
OLD MAN INJURED
YOUTH ARRESTED
ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE
A family quarrel is understood to have been the cause of an incident yesterday which resulted in an old man being taken to hospital. with a smallcalibre rifle bullet in his side, and a youth being charged this morning in the Magistrate's Court with attempted murder.
The accused is lan Gordon Cowan, a cashier, aged 17, and, he was charged before Mr. W. 'F. Stilwell, S.M., with the attempted murder of John McMillan, aged 79.
Detective-Sergeant E. C. Jarrold, who prosecuted, asked for a remand until January 2. The arrest, he said, had been made yesterday afternoon by Detectives W. McLennan and W. Ritchie. The victim was to undergo an operation this morning for the removal of the bullet. In these circumstances he did not recommend that the accused should be allowed his liberty. The remand was granted.
The injured man was taken from 47 Roy Street, where the shooting is alleged to have occurred, to the hospital of the Little Company of Mary by the Free Ambulance at 3.45 p.m. yesterday.
When inquiries were made this afternoon' McMillan's condition was reported to be fairly satisfactory.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 12
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197SHOT IN SIDE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 12
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