INVERCARGILL TRAGEDY
CHINAMAN KILLS YOUTH. Press Association.—Br Telegraph. INVERCARGILL, May 2S. A fatal shooting case occurred luro about midnight, Hector Morrison, aged 20. being shot dead by a Chinaman. Loch Ivin, aged 09, who keeps a J boardinghouse in Leet street. llie Chinese was subjected to frequent annoyance by larrikins and had to send for police assistance last night. \\ ben the constable arrived In; found Morrison lying dead iti a pool of blood on the footpath. After the door had been battered and two windows broken accused went out "with a gun and fired to scare tin: intruders, n<>t seeing Morrison in tlr.; darkness. Accused was before tho Court charged with murder and was reHanded,
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12803, 29 May 1914, Page 4
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