WOMAN SHOT
INCIDENT IN CITY
HUSBAND APPREHENDED (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 15 A charge of attempted murder was laid in Christchurch last night against Francis Noel Harkness, a naval rating at present on leave, of 145 Southampton street, after his w'.tc. Joyce Allison Harkness. living at 407 Sc'lwyn street, had been admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital suffering from gunshot wounds. The shooting occurred shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon '. the corner of Southey and Colombo streets.
The police said last night that the woman appeared to have been shot in the back.
Soon after the woman had been shot Constable C. B. Scanneil, of the Sydenham police station, apprehended the accused riding a bicycle and took him to the Christchurch police station for interrogation.
Harkness will appear in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. The hospital reported at 11.p.m. that Mrs. Harkness was on the seriously iil list.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21947, 15 February 1946, Page 4
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