THE LATE SHOOTING AFFRAY.

Colonist, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7680, 12 July 1893, Page 3

THE LATE SHOOTING AFFRAY.

THE INQUEST. ftJMXTED PBEBB ASSOCIATION.] WKtMNOTON, July 11. At the inquest on W. J. Spreat, who was shot on Saturday, the dead man's deposition! were pat id, in whioh the deoeaaed stated tbat he ased most abusive language to the two brothers, and said his temper, whioh was affected by a malady from whioh he Buffered, had brought the ooourrenoe about. Be had an affection for Louis, and did not think the la ter had any ill-feeling towards him. The affair was entirely his own fault. The evldenoe bo far corroborates tbe account previously given. Spreat, after ohasing tbe young man about with a table knifa and a poker, ' ascended to the bedroom window by a ladder after Louis. Valentine, who was below, menaced him with a double barrelled gun,, but without avail, and Spreat getting into the room, threatened Louis, who stood back to the door, which he thought was looked. Spreat used violent language and advanced, though warned to stand back. Spreat, in his deposition, says he felt tbe bullet go through the body, and it apparently orashed through a looking glass and want out of the window. Evidence so far goes to show that Spreat was a man of fearful temper, who made life very hard for those who had to liva with him. Before tbe row, he had thrown several backets of water in the houae in order, a3 he said, to giva thorn something to do, yet he bad left all his property by will to the Sanderson family. Later. At the inquest on W. J Spraat, tha Jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide. Further evidenoe was given, showing that the deceased had threatened tbe life of Sanderson's sister, and bad bee a deiberately fee!-. ing the edges of the knives.