SHOOTING HIS WIFE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2401, 8 March 1900, Page 19

SHOOTING HIS WIFE.

CHRISTCHURCH,

March 1.

This evening information was received at Lyttelton that an old man named James Pope, residing at Governor's Bay, had shot at and wounded his wife. D v r Pairman went out, and found the womanat a neighbour's house in a very exhausted state from loss of blood, from a gunshot wound in the left shoulder and neck. She was attended to, but is in a piecarious condition. There does not appear to have been any quarrel. The woman was standing at the door of her house this evening, when her husband, coming up to • her, presented a gun at her, ■which she thought not loaded, and fired. Pope than made off, and the woman made her way to the house of a neighbour, about 150 yards away. The depositions of the woman are being taken, and the police are looking for Pope, who recently earned a fairly large cheque at grass seeding, and is supposed to have been drinking. March 2. Pope, who shot his wife at Governor's Bay, was arrested in his house at 10 o'clock last night. He made no statement. He had been grass-seeding lately, and had a cheque for £27, which, it is stated, he had been spending in drink. He was brought up at the Lyttelton Police Court to-day, and remanded for eight days. The woman is not so well as had been hoped.