MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
MAN FOR TRIAL. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 16. Leslie Pearce, labourer, aged 29, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge, to which he pleaded not guilty, of discharging a revolver at Charles Bourke Bourne with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and for sentence on a charge to which he pleaded guilty of breaking and entering Bourne’s shop with intent to commit a crime therein. Both offences were alleged to have been committed at Woodend oil November 28, 1934. The charges were the sequel to a sensational incident in the early morning when a storekeeper discovered intruders in his shop and fired a gun in the air. calling on the men to come out. Shots were fired with a revolver from inside the shop, and Bourne was later hit on the left hand by a bullet when the men were making tiieir escape. The principal police witness was Robert James Mitchell, who said he was with accused when the shop was broken into and the shots were fired.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 42, 17 January 1935, Page 2
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