ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE.
ACCUSED RELEASED ON BAIL. CHRISTCHURCH, September 2C. James Scott Main, ranger to the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court, charged with having. on September 14, at Spiingston, attempted to murder Bartholomew M'Evedy by shooting him with a revolver. Accused’s counsel applied to have him released on bad. The magistrate said that as he understood the present charge might not be gone on with, and might be reduced to one of doing grievous bodily harm, he would allow bail to accused in £6OO and two sureties of £3OO each.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3524, 27 September 1921, Page 19
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93ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE. Otago Witness, Issue 3524, 27 September 1921, Page 19
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