ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER.

Waikato Independent, Volume XII, Issue 1052, 22 August 1911, Page 5

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, yesterday. A fisherman named Tom Madigan was shot in -the head at his father’s bouse in Eglinlon-ntreet, Parnell, on Saturday night, and now lies in the district hospital in a serious condition. Subsequently the police arrested Annie McConnell, a middle-aged married woman, on a charge of attempting to murder Madigan. The parties concerned have been living together for three or four years, and a quarrel between them terminated in Madigan being wounded by a bullet from a revolver, the missile penetrating his right ear, and lodging either in the base sf the skull or in the muscles of his neck. Madigan, whose wound was bleeding, was taken in a cab to a doctor, who after examination said he was of opinion that the bullet had lodged in the base of the skull. The injured man was then removed to the hospital, and Constables Magee and Gatward were despatched to arrest the woman McConnell, and take possession of the revolver. McConnell said that Tom Madigan, James Madigan, Mary Madigan, and herself were all in the house together. About 9.30 p.m. Tom Madigan went out and got a gallon of beer and two “square riggers.” The old man was in bed, and they were all drinking, when Tom Madigan caught hold of her and accused her of familiarity with other men. He struck her twice on the head with his fist, and then went into the bedroom. She followed and picked up a revolver off the table and fired. She told the police that she did not know what she fired at.