DOCTOR GIVES HIMSELF UP.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 75, 25 February 1927, Page 4

DOCTOR GIVES HIMSELF UP.

ALLEGED WILFUL SHOOTING. EDINBURGH, Feb. 3. Shortly after one o’clock in the morning Dr. Cecil John Rhodes Morrison, aged 26, of 3 Chalmers Crescent, Edinburgh, of whom the Edinburgh police had issued a description in connection with an alleged shooting affray, reported himself to the' police. Later in the day ho was charged with “wilfully shooting certain of His Majesty’s subjects,” and was sent to the sheriff, by yhqrii ho was remanded. The proceedings in both courts were formal, and lasted only a minute or two. No names were mentioned in the sharge. In the alleged shooting affray, which took place early on Saturday morning at tho house in Chalmers Croscent, Mr Neil Morrison, a solicitor, and brother of Dr. Cecil Morrison, was injured in the shoulder, and is detained in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Mrs Morrison, Mr Neil Morrison’s wife, was hurt in the right arm. She was also taken to the infirmary, but was not detained. A Dailv Mail reporter was informed by the police that Mrs. Morrison’s brother, Mr Eric Matheson, was slightly injured during the same incidents. , Dr. Morrison, who qualified as a physician and surgeon at Edinburgh in 1925 had not, it is understood, a practice of his own, but had assisted other doctors.