SHOOTING IN HOTEL.
m A FARMER WOUNDED, ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE '>:.v f !"> ; .i:■■■■ © e.- : '/ [B3C -TJJUIQBAPn—PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] ; CIIKISTCHDRfJH.' Thursday, ' A 'shooting. affray which . occurred last night at tb's Springston Hotel, .when Bartholomew McEvedy, a Southbridgo far.; mer, . wag wounded in the left vyist and thigh, resulted in the arrest of James Soitt Main, ranger < employed by the Cjlnterbmy Acclimatisation Society.".' | it was stated that the. shooting oc-' "cuirrod during an attempt'.to-'-wrest';..a. revolver, from Main's : possession. '■ : Threo shots 'were fired, • two , hitting McEwiy and the third wounding another man in : thd hand, but the latter has not yet been discovered by the police. L-. Accused appeared before the Court this morning on a charge /' attempted murder, and was remanded for.'; 'five days. " '■*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1888, 16 September 1921, Page 5
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