ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE
Old Man Before Court (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 to-day with assaulting Constable Edwards in the execution of his duty and with attempting to murder Sergeant L. E. G. Wilson. Morrison, a man of good physique, was accompanied in the dock by a constable. The police desired to make further inquiries and obtained a remand to November 27. “Thank you,” said Morrison, leaving the dock.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22125, 20 November 1941, Page 4
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114ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22125, 20 November 1941, Page 4
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