ATTEMPTED MURDER ALLEGED
TWO MEN CHARGED (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 6. In the Supreme Court to-day John Leslie Florance, aged- 33. hotel porter, and Herbert Lorraine Woodham, 28, a blacksmith, stood their trial before Mr Justice Fair on a charge of attempted murder of a police constable, llichard William Meyer, and, on alternative counts, that with intent to disable they discharged a firearm at him, that'they did.-the constable grievous bodily harm, that they did him actual bodily harm, and that they assaulted, him. They were also charged that they attempted to break and enfer the premises of Wholesale Clearing House with intent to commit a crime. The case is proceeding.
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Evening Star, Issue 25325, 6 November 1944, Page 4
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