SHOOTING DRAMA IN A PAVILION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19134, 29 July 1930, Page 11

SHOOTING DRAMA IN A PAVILION.

caretaker ordered MAN TO PUT HANDS UP. * (Special to the “Star.’ ) LONDON, June G. A dramatic statement alleged to have been made by Alfred Henry Savage, a nineteen-year-old bricklayer, of Springfield Place, Wandsworth, describing a shooting incident in which a man named James Ellicott was wounded in the Paddington Recreation Ground pavilion, Maida Yale, early yesterday morning, was given in evidence at Marylebone Police Court yesterday. Savage was remanded until June 12 on a charge of being concerned with Ellicott, who is in St Mary’s Hospital, in breaking and entering the pavilion with intent to commit a felony. £ Divisional Detective Inspector Yandell said that Ellicott was being X-rayed at the hospital and operated on that evening. There was a slight ! hope of his recovery. When the case was called Detective Inspector Yandell explained that Ellicott was suffering from a bullet wound in the lung, having been shot at by the caterer, who lived on the premises, while he was endeavouring to escape “ Put Them Up.” Police Constable Watercr, giving evidence, said that he saw Savage at St Mary’s Hospital at 2.45 that morning, and cautioned him. Savage then said: I was with the other man when he was shot. We broke into the place and walked about in the bar for five minutes, j when I heard the door open and we tried to hide at the back of the counter. We came out from behind the counter, and as soon he saw us he said, “Put them up! ” We said, “ It is all right, guv’nor.” He said, “ I will show you, and he fired on the ground, and went like a lunatic. He said, “If you move I will blow your head off.” He opened the door and started calling out for help, and started flashing the revolver about, and my mate made a rush for the door. He fired two more shots. My mate said, “ Ifc has got me, Alf.” I caught hold of him by the hand and shut the door, so that he could not fire again. We ran down the path, and he was still calling for help. We got over the gate and made cur way as far as the garage, where we went in and asked for a drink of water. He said, “It is no good, I shall ... have to go to hospital,” and I asked the-garage predictor to ’phone up the ambulance. Savage here exclaimed, when asked by Mr Dummett, the magistrate, if he had anything to say : “ lie ought not to have fired at all.”