WITNESS SHOT.
NEW SOUTH WALES CRIME. IN CRITICAL CONDITION. Received May 11, 11.50 a.m. SYDNEY, May 11. Moncrieff Anderson, aged 33, a Crown witness in the trial of Edward Henry Morey on the charge of murdering Percy Smith,', was shot in the head last night at Wagga. The bullet has presumably lodged in the brain and the doctors say he is likely to die at any minute. Anderson was with his wife and child drawing water from a horse trough in a lane when the shot was fired from the cover of a large tree. The body of an unknown man was found at Murrumbidgee, five miles west of IVagga, on December 26. The head was terribly injured and had a chaff bag thrown over it. The body, which apparently had been in the river for some time, was on, January 31, identified as that of Percy Smith, a shearer. He was believed to have been a native of Carlton (Victoria).
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 137, 11 May 1934, Page 7
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161WITNESS SHOT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 137, 11 May 1934, Page 7
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