ORAKEI SHOOTING SENSATION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) [ AUjOKLAND, Last Night. The police to-day are continuing an .investigation of the mysterious shooting at Mr William Palmer.- commander of a squadron of the Legion of Frontiersmen, near Orakei, late on Monday night. No motive has yet been sug gested. . Fragments of bullets picked up on the road lead to the belief that more than two shots were fired. The position and condition of two of the bullets recovered from wood in the boatshed at the roadside furnish ground for the suggestion that they were not fired direct at Mr Palmer but ricocheted from the roadway. From this it is deduced that the shots were either fired to' frighten Mr Palmer or that the assailant was inexperienced in the use of the weapon.
Fragments of bullets were sprayed for a distance of 20 to 25 feet from the tboatshed, and it is regarded as possible that the shots were fired from behind Mr Palmer.
The bullets, which were of .38 calibre, were automatic pistol bullets. Such weapons have been absolutely prohibited In New Zealand since 15)20.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 July 1935, Page 8
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