ATTEMPTED MURDER ALLEGED
ELDERLY MAN CHARGED (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 19. Following a visit by several members of the police force to a house in Grey Terrace, off Grey’s Avenue, last evening, when a shot was fired and an elderly man was overpowered and handcuffed, James Maxwell Morrison, aged 72, a pensioner, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court today with assaulting Constable Edwards in the execution of his duty and with attempting t„ murder Sergeant L. E. G. Wilson. Morrison, a man of good physique, was accompanied in the dock by a constable. The police asked for, and obtained, a remand to November 27.
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Southland Times, Issue 24597, 20 November 1941, Page 4
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