THE WAITARA SHOOTING CASE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12426, 16 December 1908, Page 4

THE WAITARA SHOOTING CASE.

»Ip dr. goode before the COUP.T. MRS KLENNER'S DEPOSITIONS. THE VICTIM SINKING. [United Press Association.] New Plymouth, Dec. 15. This morning, Dr. -f (3 bode, the perpetrator of the Waitara shooting affair, was more calm and self-pos-sessed. Prior to being formally told of the charge, he expressed ignorance of the causes leading- to his being locked upy When charged in his cell he made no reply, beyond expressing ~a wi«h to see his aolicitor. .- Later in the ; morning be was brought "h-ifore-Mr H. S, FitzherIbert, S.M., and formally charged with having attempted to murder Mrs Klenner.. Accused was attended in the dook' by two constables. After the charge had been read out, tbe Court adjourned to the Hospital, where Mrs Klenuer's depositions were taker.. Accused was then remanded until Wednesday, the 23rd icst. '-■■ Mrs Klenner's depositions at the Hospital were as follows: — "I am the. wife- bf Alois Klenner, butcher, of Waiitara. I live next door to Dr Goode, who is accused of attempting to .murder nie. That is he standing there. Accused came to my house, I trunk about half-past three, yes.teiday afternoon. I thought I heard a noise on the doorstep. I opened the d;or, ai\d found it was Or. Goode. He walked into the sitting room, and said 'I want to speak to yon.' He was the -worse of liquor. He said bad things about me, and said I* whs bad with othor men, which is untrue, as I was always true to my husband. He w anted me to sit on his kaee, and said 'You bo mine, or I'll shoot you.' I refused, and- he fired two shots at ma at short range, and I fell over. He tried to fire a third shot, but tho. revolver would not go off. I heard him say, 'Are you d9ad?" I m-vtr. answered, as I was afraid. 1 hoard him say, "I am going to get some moro whisky, and fiaiah myself,' He then ■al-immed tne door, and went away, I did not sco him since till now." Cross-examined by Mr Wilkes, she .•■aid : Accus -d was drunk. I could not say bow long he was in the room. He was very excited, and his language was unusual. He was very angry before I refused his request Ho had been drinking for days. I could not say if he conld walk straight. He tried to shoot himself, but his revjlcer would nor go off. tie was always my meciral ad--lisar since he has bei-n in Waitara. I am quite friendly with him, and think be must have been out of his rniDd or he would not have done what be did. Accused was ni?d with whisky, I judged from bis appearance. - Mrs Klenner came from Sydney about a dozen years ago, to marry Mr Klenner. in Wellington, and they have since resided* in Waitara, where Mrs IQenner is well liked. She bas five"children. Mrs Klenneris still in a very bad condition. She rallied a little from the shock, but the outlook is decidedly unfavourable. The bullets have probably lodged near the spine, affecting the spinal nerves. Her left arm is paralysed. The. brain, howeyer, is uninjured, aud her. mental condition is, so far unimpaired. Tne chief dangers Bomu from inflammation and interference witb respiiation, on account of the windpipe being pierced, and tbere is'also great trouble in feeding the patient, owing, to an injury to tbe gull it. The latest report to-night is that Sbe patient is weaker.