FATHER SHOT DEAD

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2377, 2 December 1929, Page 6

FATHER SHOT DEAD

SON SENT FOR TRIAL

SEQUEL TO FAMILY QUARREL

Following -a violent scene in a house at Alpington, Melbourne, one night recently Charles Harrison, the owner of a battery manufacturing business at North Melbourne, was shot through the neck and chest with a shotgun. He wa s found lying dead in the passage of the house by police officers. Subsequently Ba sil Alfred Harrison, aged 27 years, liia son, was arrested and charged with iriurde*. At the inquest the Coroner committed accused for trial. Mrs Florence Harrison, widow of Charles Harrison, said that her husband arrived! home in an intoxicated condition. Ho became violont, and struck her, and she ran out of t-h“ housi*.

Ivy*' Harrison, a daughter of the dead man, said that when she tried to restrain her father from striking her mother, she was knocked to the floor, and was dazed by the bio*' She heard la shot, and, on looking up, saw her brother standing over her father with a shotgun iu his hand. •

Detective F. Halseli gave eviuenw that Basil Harrison, when interviewed atter the tragedy, said that liis father had guile mad with drum. He had threatened to kill them allHe (the son) tried to protect his mother. There was a struggle, of which he remembered little, until a shotgun was discharged hnd his father fall.

Counsel urged that from a- toga! and public point of view Harrison should not he sent for trial. He did not think that there were 12 sane men the community jwlio would -find him guilty of murder. The coroner said that it had not been shown sufficiently that either the life of -Mrs Harrison or that of her daughter was in imminent peril, and in those circumstances he could not absolve the slayer. TUSSLE ON RAILWAY DETECTIVE AND ItOJUAEIt TRAINS IN TERR LET CONTEST ' Detective John Dilworth, while looking for a pipk-poeket in the Wall' Stret underground station. New York, suddenly found himself facing -a notorious iroljfber, John Curry. The two men grappled, stumbled from the platform and (started a rough-and-tumble fight on the tracks. A train approached, and both agreed to n truce, stepping into a safety zone between the tracks, while the train whizzed by. The next moment found them fighting. Three minutes later, on tne approach (if another train, they again declared a truce. Resuming the encounter, Curry was heating the dctetive. when subway employees interfered. An ambulance surgeon treated both for cuts, but Curry liwd to go to prison.