ATTEMPTED MURDER.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Tuesday. At the Supreme Court, in the case of Thos. Barrett, charged with attempted murder, the jury returned at ten o'clock, having found the accused guilty. He was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. The case was one in which an old man named Wood, who had previously been on bad terms with Barrett, was assaulted on his way home one dark night, and beaten very severely. The horse arid dray he was driving were backed over a precipice, falling '20 feet, the horse having his back broken. Wood's life was for some time despaired of. Barrett left the Court protesting hiis innocence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8273, 4 June 1890, Page 5
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