DRIVER OF MOTOR CAR SHOT DEAD.
BY A MASKED ROBBER. (Pub Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, Nov. 9. Later details show that the driver of the car, John Coulthard, was shot dead. The car with three occupants turned a corner. There was no time to pull up, and it ran into a box and ladder on the road, (Hilling up the car. Immediately the car stopped a man, masked, hopped out of a place resembling a dug-out and cried, “Hands up!” Coulthard endeavoured to remove the box from the road, hut was struck by a bullet and rolled into the gutter dead. The manager, Mr James, hopped out of the car, but was hit in the thigh and leg, a third bullet grazing his hand. Paymaster Eli 11 was evidently fired on at short range. When assistance arrived his clothes were on fire. Two men approaching on bicycles heard the shooting and saw a man cross the railway line with a bag and take to the bush. Hill is in a serious condition. [The first telegram referring to liu’.s matter had not come to hand when our second edition went to press.)
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1017, 9 November 1917, Page 5
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