Still At Large. WHO SHOT M'GUIRE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 13 April 1910, Page 5

Stil l At Large.

WHO SHOT M'GUIRE.

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PALMEKSTON N., April 12,

The Manawatu Daily Times, referring* to the suggestions in Wellington papers and current rumors that Sergeant McGuire was not shot by the suspect, but by one of the searchers in his own party, states that it has had an opportunity of fully investigating the tacts, and is satisfied that the man who shot Sergeant McGuire was the man whom the sergeant found flattened up against a door on the front verandah of Hampton's house to avoid observation. This man Sergeant McGuire states, wore a mask, and the sergeant closed with him directly, and the pair struggled out across the gravel path on to the lawn, where, while still on the ground, the man shot the sergeant either deliberately or through the revolver going off in the excitement.

Detective Quartermain and Hampton just then came on the scene, and Quartermain fired at the flash. Hampton believes that the man ran behind a house and then back again, and out over a low hedge at the front and across Fergusson. street into the paddocks opposite. He was therefore not in the block when the cordon was placed round the latter. SERGEANT McGUIRE'S CONDI-

TION.

Sergeant McGuire's condition permits of some slight hope being entertained.