NAPIER SHOOTING CASE.
ACCUSED COMMITTED FOB TRIAL. [BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NAPIER, March, 20. At the Magistrate’s Court this morning the young man named J. Young Hannay, charged with having fired a shot gun at three others, Robert Colquhoun, John Miller and Fred Johnson, appeared to answer the charge. Accused was committed for trial at the Supreme Court, bail being allowed. The evidence showed that the quarrel took plane between flaiujay and the others in one of the main streets on tn° evening of the 13th Inst, and that the three prosecutors afterwards followed the accused to his home for the purpose they stated ,of demanding an apology. The accused went into his house and brought out a shot gun, and discharged both barrels at the other three, who then fell into retreat, thinking that Hannay had brought some friends to his assistance. Colqnhonn was struck bv two pellets of the shot, but was only slightly injured. Hannay says that lie merely fired to scare the others, and when he thought tlioj’ were at a sate distance.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 March 1911, Page 6
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