NAPIER SHOOTING CASE
(Per United Press Association). NAPIER. March 20. At the Magistrate’s Court this morning a young man named J. Young Hannay, was charged with having fired a shot gun at three others, Robert Colquhoun, John Miller and Fred Johnson, and was committed for trial at the Supreme Court, bail being allowed. The evidence showed that a quarrel took place in one of the main stWjets on the evening of the 13th Instant, and that the three prosecutors had afterwards followed accused to his home for the purpose, they stated, of demanding an apology. Accused went into the house, brought out a shot gun, and discharged both barrels at the other three, who were then 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 that he fired merely to scare the others, and when he thought they were at a safe distance.
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Southland Times, Issue 16691, 21 March 1911, Page 5
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162NAPIER SHOOTING CASE Southland Times, Issue 16691, 21 March 1911, Page 5
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