The Invercargill Shooting Case.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 21 June 1888, Page 2

The Invercargill Shooting Case.

(Per Press Association.) Invercargill, June 20. Dr Galbraith, who was shot by Maloney yesterday, is getting on fairly. Twentysix pellets were extracted from his leg to-day, and many bad gone right through the thigh. From what transpired, it seems very evident that Maloney has a monomania which urges him to shoot at all medical men who have had anything to do with him. He kept a loaded gun in a place in town some years ago, convenient to “ wing” Dr Cotterill, and he has said that he would have fired it at Dr Hannah but for the fact that his groom was always with him, and he did not want to shoot a man who had done him no harm. There was method in his madness, for he went up to Dr Galbraith w hen he lay on the ground, and tried to raise him, saying he was soiry, bat had to do it. He wished he had hit him lower down, and in all his remarks on the subject has never spoken of killing, but always of maiming the object of his resentment. Maloney is an old settler, having been on the Land Co.’s Edeudale EsAte 2G years ago. He was charged with murder, and remanded fora week.