The Balfour Shooting Case.
VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER. (Per Press Association.) Invercargill, July 25. The inquest on the body of Hugh Stewart, bailiff, fatally shot by John Keown, farmer, at Balfour, last Saturday, was held at Riversdale today. It was shown that Keown drank a bottle of whisky on the day of the tragedy. Stewart was lef bon the ground for some time, then taken into a leanto, laid on straw, and blankets and sacks put over him. Keown's household then dined, and took no further notice of the injured man, nor sent for medical aid. A verdict of wilful murder was returned against Keown, and a rider added expressing the jury's strong disapproval of Hornsby's action in supplying Keown's demands for the gun and caps. Keown will be brought up at the Gore Stipendiary Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 22, 25 July 1895, Page 2
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139The Balfour Shooting Case. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 22, 25 July 1895, Page 2
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