A SHOOTING CASE

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15570, 21 March 1911, Page 9

A SHOOTING CASE

[Pub Press Association.] NAPIER, March 20. At the Magistrate's Court this morning a young man named J. Young Hannay was charged with having fired a shotgun at three others, Robert Colquhoun, John Miller and Fred Johnson, and was committed for trial at the Supreme Court, bail being allowed. The evidence showed that a quarrel took place in one of the main streets on the orening of March 13, and that the tlu-oe prosecutors afterwards followed accused to his home, for the purpose, they stated, of demanding an apology. Accused wont into tho house, brought out a shotgun, and discharged both barrels at the other three, who were then in full retreat, thinking Hannay had brought some friends to his assistance. Colquhoun was struck by two pellets of shot, but only slightly injured. Hannay says he merely fired to scare the others and when he thought they wore at a safe distance.