SHOOTING AFFRAY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11976, 20 September 1906, Page 6

SHOOTING AFFRAY.

A Woman Wounded. Her Assailant Attempts Suic lcfe. SYDNEY, September 2. tw n Ut midai Sto a woman named Laurie Cosgrove, 33 years of age, was taken to Sydney Hospital, suffering from a bullet wound in the %ehead. * ibe wounded woman keeps a boardiaeJioiisc in Maeqiiarie. Street South. She states that late last night she. heard a row going on in the street, and went out to see what it wai about. She had hardly got outside when she was fired at by a man with a revolver, the bullet entering her forehead The woman was taken to the Sydney Hospital, and admitted for treatment by Dr Bell, nor condition is not regarded as critical. At a later hour the No. 2 police arrested a young man in a stable, and took him to the police station on n charge of shooting with intent to murder. Ho is tfmc past kn ° WU th ° W ° man for Eomc When arrested a blood-stained razor was £ I / C .f the ™ an ' and w as seen that He had attempted to cut his throat. The wound inflicted 'however, was but slight, and, though W was taken to the hospital the*? 8 DOt d accessar y to dct *in him The polica have not yet found the revolver from which the shot was fired.