A SHOOTING AFFRAY
DEMAND FOR AN APOLOGY. WHAT AY AS GIVEN. Electric Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, Alarch 20. At the Alagistrate’s Court this morning, a young man. gamed J. Young Hannay, was charged with having fired a shot gun at three others—Robert Colquhoun. John Al filer and Fred. Johnson—and was committed for trial to the supreme Court, bail being allow T ed. The evidence showed that a quarrel took place in one of the main streets on the evening of the 13th inst.. and that the three prosecutors afterwards followed accused to his home, for the purpose, they stated, of demanding an apology. Accused went into his house, and brought out a shot-gun. and discharged both barrels at the other three, who then turned in full retreat, thinking that Hannay had brought some friends to his assistance. Colquhoun was struck by two pellets of shot, but was only slightly injured. Hannay says he merely fired to scare the others, and v hen he thought they were at a safe distance.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XV, Issue 3888, 21 March 1911, Page 5
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