MERCER SENSATION.
YOUTH IN THE DOCK.
ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER.
SHOOTING OF JAMES BATES.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, Monday.
Christopher Niven, aged 19 years, appeared In the Polloe Court to-day charged with attempting to murder James Pennington Bates at Meroer on April 14 and unlawfully converting a car to his own use.
Medical evidence was given that Bates, who left the hospital on May 6, still has a bullet In the groin. He is not likely to be injured by the bullet remaining there. The place where the wound was inflicted was exceedingly dangerous, quite as dangerous to life as a wound in the head. William John Churchill, accused’s stepfather, said a revolver belonging to him disappeared with accused on April 14. It was light to touch and would go off easily without a man intending it.
(Proceeding.)
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18944, 15 May 1933, Page 8
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