A SHOOTING AFFRAY.
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Wbllinqtoit, September; 28 1 A serious shooting affray took 1 place at Wadestown yesterday afternoon, Thomas Boyles Gambull, and J. A. Stuait Morton, residents of that plaoe, have bad a dispute as to the rlgbt of the latter to drive oattle along a road In tbe distriot. Yesterday J. A. Smith, nephew of Morton, was driving oattle along this road when Gambull atopped him, and after a short argument shot one cow with a double barrelled gup. On Smith remonstrating Gamhull 'shot him In tbe right leg just above the knee. Gambull was «rre-ted aod Smith was taken to the hospital.
Later.
G.tmbull, who Is In custody on the charge of shooting, a««e:ti tbat It was accident^. His si ory Is tbat Smith attempted to assault him with a pieoe of wood, tbat a struggle ensuod In which Smith caught hold of the barrels of tbe gun and whlie he was . Attempting to wrench. It from aooaeed's gra-p It went off. Gambull who is an elderly man has been remanded for a week, Smith Is a young man of 21. and ti progressing favorably.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2239, 28 September 1889, Page 2
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190A SHOOTING AFFRAY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2239, 28 September 1889, Page 2
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