ATTEMPTED MURDER
ECHO TO RECENT MERCER CASE
YOUTH REMANDED TILL MONDAY
(Per Press Association Copyright.)
AUCKLAND, April 17
A young man who was arrested near Frankton on Saturday night, Christopher Niven, 19 years of age, appeared in the police court to-day and was charged that on April 14, at Mercer, he. attempted to murder James Pennington Bates. He was remanded till Monday. Later, the Magistrate held a special sitting of tiie Court at the public hospital, where Bates, who is to undergo a second operation this afternoon, lay in bed. The accused, guarded by a constable, stood at the foot of the bed. Bates gave evidence, in the course of which he definitely identified the accused as the motorist who had shot him.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1933, Page 5
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