WOULD-BE ASSASSIN ON TRIAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10765, 13 May 1911, Page 4

WOULD-BE ASSASSIN ON TRIAL.

[By Electric Telegraph—CorYßionT.]

(Per Press Association.) Madrid, May 12.

Boca's trial has begun. [As Senhor Maura, ex-Premier of Spain; was alighting from a train at Barcelona on July 23 he was fired at twice,.-and wounded in the arm and leg. A third bullet struck Senhor Maura's friend," and wounded him seriously. Senhor Maura, with a lady and a cousin," .after the second shot, seized the assailant, who is a carrier named Roca, aged'" 18. The outrage was attributed to f-Tevenge on account of Senhor Maura's severe suppression of the insurrection last year.j