HIGHLAND FISHERMAN SHOT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12955, 26 August 1905, Page 2 (Supplement)

HIGHLAND FISHERMAN SHOT.

AN EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR. News of a strange shooting affair, which recently occurred at Beaufort Castle, the Scotch scat of Lord Lovat, which is at present tenanted by Mr. Henry Phipps, a rich American, came to hand recently. It appears that two sons of Mr. Phipps, suspecting that poaching for salmon was going on, went down to the riverside in the da'rk; the movement of a boat was heard on tho_ opposite side, and Messrs. Phipps shouted to tho rowers, and also fired some gunshots with tho object of frightening them. Threw of tho men left the boat, but a fourth remained, and he, on being asked who ho was, replied that he was John Allan Fraser, whom they knew to be one of tho gillies on the estate. They invited him to row across to them, but he answered that he could not move "as ho had received pollots in both eyes and was blind. Tho Phipps then rowed to Fraser, and brought him to the castle, doing everything possible tor his comfort there, and sending for tho district doctor. They also wired the next day to Edinburgh for an, operating surgeon, who found it necessary to remove Frascr's right eye, but it, is hoped that the sight of the left eye may be recovered.

Some of the others who were on the river with Fraser also received a few stray pellets, but their injuries are not worth mentioning and they have resumed their work as estate employees. Mr. Henry Phipps is a director of the American Steel Corporation, in which position he succeeded Mr. John Rockefeller. His first start in life was made as a boy in a little blacksmith's forge. He is best known in Great Britain for his donation of £20,000 to the Boer relief fund. He also gave a similar sum for founding an agricultural college in India, which bears his name.,