SHOT FROM COVER
CROWN WITNESS IN MURDER TRIAL CONDITION GRAVE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, May 11. (Received May 11, at 11.50 a.m.) Moucrieff Anderson, thirty-three years of age, who was 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 AVagga AVagga. The bullet presumably lodged in bis brain. The doctors say he is likely to die at any minute. < Anderson was with his wife and child and was drawing water from a horse trough in a Jane when the shot was fired from the cover of a large tree. [The body of an unknown man was found at Murrumbidgeo, five miles west of Wagga AVagga on December 26 with his head terribly injured. A chaff hag had been thrown over his head. The body apparently had been in the river for some time. On January 3 the body was identified as that of Percy Smith, a shearer, believed to be a native of Carlton, Victoria.]
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Evening Star, Issue 21717, 11 May 1934, Page 9
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171SHOT FROM COVER Evening Star, Issue 21717, 11 May 1934, Page 9
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