ATTEMPTED MURDER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1872, 20 June 1888, Page 2

ATTEMPTED MURDER.

I (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION ) JNVERCARGII,£ Juno 19. \ Thin afternoon as Dc Galbraith iraa , passing alon.j a atreet m Noifh Jnveroar- , gill, o paaoer-by satr a man named John i Maloney, Inapeo'or of Kulaanoeß for the . $ rough, following the Doctor with a dtublc-barrol gan. The fJoo'.or turned IBnd epqko t) Malonry, but what paa>ed between thorn haa not transpired, when Ataloney raleed the gun nji deliberated fjrod at him The Doctor was severely wounded In the thigh, the leg from hip to knee feeing riddlpd with a Jjaavy pharge of ahoi. Ho fell to the ground, and Maloney walked away. Tho Doctor w»i put into a paesing trap and brought to his realdenoa In town, where several oolleagaes had ißßembled and attended to his injuries. The D otor Is an elderly rain and la suffering from the ahook to hirf pyalom, The police went oat to lUUlonoy's ■. ho]ia?j nnc± foan^ a gan with one bsrrel I ncpntly diaijharg^a nna ihp other loaded. Tho fijuWJy'aiM 'oitKiAp; 'of'hfi; where-r fibonta, but ho wns-foanj |n thobnpkyard and arreet* (I without roaiatHiicc, On the way to Iho kok-upho talked Incoherently. The outrnga is auppoaod to ba the outoomo of an Jiieuno grudgo againet tho medical profoDßion, Ooli/rftitbhij^liacl no dealinga with fiJUlonoy 'for years'. The latter uoffera from a ohronio sarglohil d!aeti)e, si>a aboot five years ago he sued Dr Oot^orill fn -l thfl Sdorema Qoiirt for damages alloged nfaUrbaUfieut ' Tho acton broke do wp, an 4 the quaa lon of ftfaloaey'a eaoUy \ya3 afterwards raieod, he hwing elated Ija v°al4 '• V?'ng " Df Oottarill. Dr Galbralih, with other med'oal men, droMnqdl to oeftlf/ he wa» inuanoj and Maloney «eem« to have j harbored c graugo !2* ln " k Wm an^ Qthop dootora slnoo. & 1 hough he had been a borongh oij|cial for many years, mauy had doubts as '£b hfa menial <jfondit|on. InVbkoaribill" June 20 John Maloney, who wounded Dr"G:*lbraith by ahootiog him iv the leg, was brought before the Magistrate on a charge of attempted murder, and wag remanded for eight days,