A SHOOTING AFFAIR.
A CHARGE AT NAPIER.
lUxixED Press Association.)
NAPIER, Monday. Alexander Strachan, a. man about 40 years of age, who fired a revolver at Herbert Sidney Bradley, at Taradale, last Wednesday, the bullet lodging in Bradley's lunch bag, appeared before the Magistrate's Court to-day. The evidence showed that Strachan had been drinking two days before. He talked of shooting his wife and committing suicide. He was heard to say that there would be the biggest/ tragedy that ever happened in Taradale. Strachan had a quarrel with Bradley a year ago, but not' serious. He purchased the revolver and 50 cartridges on Tuesday, ostensibly for pig shooting purposes. There were no signs of liquor on him on Wednesday. He was a hard-working, respectable man •when sober, but is a prohibited person. and has been imrorisoned for breach of the order. , He was committed for trial, the Magistrate refusing bail on the ground that the evidence tended to show mental degeneration.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 24 January 1911, Page 6
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161A SHOOTING AFFAIR. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 24 January 1911, Page 6
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