GUNSHOT WOUNDS
WOMAN SERIOUSLY INJURED ARREST OF THE HUSBAND (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 14. A charge of attempted murder was laid in Christchurch to-night against Francis Noel Harkness, a naval rating at present on leave, of 145 Southampton street, after his wife, Joyce Allison Harkness, living at 407 Selwyn street, had been admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital, suffering from gunshot wounds. The shooting occurred shortly after one o’clock this afternoon at the corner of Southey and Colombo streets. The police said to-night that the woman appeared to have been shot in the Soon after the woman had been shot, Constable C. B. Scannell, of the Sydenham Police Station, apprehended the accused riding a bicycle and took him to the Christchurch Central Police Station for interrogation. Harkness will appear in the Magistrate’s Court to-morrow morning. A hospital report, issued at 11 p.m., states that Mrs Harkness is on the seriously ill list.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26078, 15 February 1946, Page 6
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