TENT-DWELLER SHOT
ROBBERY, OR QUARREL ? [FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] WANGANUI, August 13. After one o’clock this morning, the police were summoned to St. John’s Hill, Great North Road, where it was reported that a tent occupied by Clifford Charles Organ had been visited by two masked men, with a pea-rifle, who demanded money. Organ, who was taken by surprise, jumped up and attempted to snatch the mask off one man, when he was shot by the other in the leg with the pea-rifle. He was taken to the hospital. The police are scouring the district. • Organ had a wood-cutting contract. LATER. Organ was shot at while he was lying in bed. The shot went through the fleshy part of his leg below the knee. The police are investigating, and are inclined to view the motive as not robbery, but domestic trouble.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1931, Page 5
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