SHOOTING MYSTERY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17746, 5 April 1932, Page 5

SHOOTING MYSTERY

MAN’S NARROW ESCAPE TARGET BEHIND WINDOW SYDNEY, March 2li. Mystery surrounds a deliberate attempt made shortly after midnight to-day, to murder Henry Norman Cassidy, 30, in Ids home by the Belabula River, a mile from Canowindra. The would-be slayer took aim at Cassidy through the dining-room window as he reached across it to get matches from a coat hanging on the wall. There was a loud shattering of glass and Cassidy was hit on the little linger of the left hand by the bullet, which the police think was tired from a ride.

Cassidy is a laborer, and lives with his wife and four children. Last night he read till a iale hour, Ilis wife and children were asleep, and before retiring Cassidy went to the stable, about 100yds from the house, to feed ids pony.

Ho saw nobody about when he walked hack to the house, lie entered the dining-room in which a table lamp was burning.

As he got between the light and the window to get bis matches a bullet ploughed its way through the glass, smashing it to bits, and then Cassidy felt tlie sting of the shot on his linger, which was badly bruised and grazed.

Ili> rushed outside, and as he neared his gate lie saw, in the gloom, the llguros of three men hoarding a ear, which was driven off at a breakneck speed. Cassidy notified Sergeant Manns at Canowindra, and the search for the gunman lias proceeded all day. ]to til Cassidy and the police are unable to account for the cowardly attempt upon the laborer’s life.