FURTHER DETAILS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20039, 24 March 1914, Page 5

FURTHER DETAILS.

A DESPERATE HUSBAND

(Per Presa Association.) DUNEDIN, Mar. 23. Further particulars concerning the shooting incident at Sawyer's Bay yesterday show that Green went to Perry's house, and'with, Berry's consent entered the kitchen. "Green asked his wifeto go for a walk, as he had something to say to her. She refused1, and he produced a revolver. She threw upher 'hands to protect her head, and realised that she had been shot in thehand and the upper portion of the body. Green pulled out a razor and made a? ; lunge at her. She dashed for the back v door, which she managed to get open. »She scrambled over the back fence and . „ fell into "at vacant section adjoining- - The only reason she could give for her husband'e behaviour was that she declined tojive with him until he provided ' herself and the children with a home. She Aad two wounds on. the top of' her shoulder, where the bullets had) passed through, and afterwards penotraied her neck below the angle of the jaw. On the left side ther© were twowounds in the scalp above the left ear, and the comb she was wearing had been, smashed to pieces. There was also a, wound on her left thumb, evidently, made by a bullet passing through it. Green then went to Port Chalmers,. and gave.himself up to the police. The accused ip about 35 years of age. On examining the kitchen in which* the shootin goccured. th<9_ constable found a bullet embedded in the cupboard door about five feet above the floor. Another bullet had struck a window sill, and glancing upwards had shattered a window pane. Two spento bullets were found on the floor. A sixchatabered American, bull-dog revolver, which he .purchased on Saturday, was used by the accused. Green was charge ed with attempted murder, to-day, and was remanded for a week. Mrs Green will probably have to undergo a slight operation to her neck.