MAN SHOT IN HEAD.
;i ATTACK IN HAMPSHIRE. ! A SERIES OF CHARGES. LONDON, Dec. 80. /While Mr. Charles Stephen, a retired civil servant of Itingwood, near Southampton, was peacefully attempting to solve a puzzle, John Hill, aged 29, a poultry farmer, the adopted son of Mr. Stephen's sister, who had bequeathed him lier property after Mr. Stephen's death, entered the room. Mr. Stephen asked if Kio could finish the puzzle. Hill, after writing down words leading to the impression that he was drunk, dropped the (crossword puzzle and went to a desk. An explosion followed and Mr. Stephen fell on his knees with a pistol bullet in his head. He was not seriously hurt, and ran out of the house shouting "Help!"
Hill, exclaiming that it was an accident, lollowed him and brought a constable to the cottage, where he submitted to ar- ) est. Hill, who declared that he shot Mr. Stephen unintentionally, after loading a pistol to kill rats in the fowlhouse, was committed for trial on charges of malicious wounding, possessing firearms without uuthority and stealing and forging cheques bearing Mr. Stephen's name to the amount of £9O.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20761, 2 January 1931, Page 9
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190MAN SHOT IN HEAD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20761, 2 January 1931, Page 9
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