YOUNG MAN WOUNDED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 191, 13 August 1931, Page 9

YOUNG MAN WOUNDED.

Masked Intruders Carried Pea Rifle. MADE DEMAND FOR MONEY. (Special to the “ Star.**) WANGANUI. August 13. Detective Walsh and Sergeant Dunsford received a hurried call shortly before one o’clock this morning to a point on the Great North Road. St. John’s Hill, al cat three miles from St. John’s railway crossing. A report was received that Clifford Charles Organ, who occupied a tent near the road, had been abruptly awakened, and two masked men, one with a pea rifle, demanded money. When Organ refused to comply with the request and jumped up to snatch a mask from one of the men, he was shot in the leg by the one with the pea rifle. The men then made a hurried departure, and Organ went to a neighbour’s house and ’phoned the police. Orgdn was taken unawares, and did not know that anything was amiss until confronted with a sudden demand for money. lie is a young man, and has been engaged in a wood-cutting contract. He was admitted to hospital, and is progressing favourably. At the present time the police do not associate the men responsible for the hold-u~ with those operating recently at Wellington. There are also doubts as to whether the object of the visit was for money or to interview the man who- had previously occupied the tent. On Tuesday night a young man, James Laing, was confronted in Guyton Street, by a tall, thick-set man, who demanded money, and on Laing refusing the man struck him, knocked him down and departed. POLICE HAVE THEORY. (Special to the ** Star.") WANGANUI. August 13. In connection with the St John’s Hill shooting affray the police incline to the opinion that the motive was not robbery, but domestic trouble. Organ was shot at while lying in bed. The shot went through the fleshy part of the leg below the knee in a slanting direction. It is considered that Organ was lucky not to have received fatal injuries.