ATTEMPTED MURDER.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, Feb 25. At the Police Court to-day Thomas McKenzie was charged with having on the -sth instant, at Owake Creek, of malice aforethought, attempted to drown Richard Norman, master of the Janet Ramsay, with intent to murder him. The Janet Ramsay is a small draft, of which McKenzie is mate. He went ashore without permission on the sth instant, just as the tide was making to enable: the vessel to go up the; Owake, which is a branch of Gatlin’s River. When he returned on the sth instant the vessel was going down again,' and Norman told him to lend a hand,. whereupon, he rushed at Norman and caught him by the waist, The cook and. a seaman picked him up. After the hearing of lengthy evidence, the case was adjourned for a week.
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Patea Mail, Volume X, Issue 1315, 2 March 1885, Page 3
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