FATAL SHOOTING AFFAIR.
TRAGIC DEATH OF A YOUTH
A CHINAMAN CHARGED WITH MURDER.
(fress assootation* 'telegram.) INVEBCABGILL, May 28
A fatal shooting affair occurred here about, midnight, Hector Morrison, twenty years of.age, having been shot, it is alleged, by a Chinaman named Lock Kin. aged sixty-nine, who keeps a boarding-house in Loet street. The Chinese was subjected to frequent annoyance by larrikins, and had to sow] to the police for assistance last night. Wlien a constable arrived, lie found Morrison lying dead in a pool of blood on tho footpath. After the door had been battered and two windows broken, the accused, it :s said, went out with a gun ;iml fired to scare the intruders. He did not see Morrison iv tho darkness. Accused was brought before the Court this morning,and charged with murder.' He was remartded. * |
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14980, 29 May 1914, Page 3
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138FATAL SHOOTING AFFAIR. Press, Volume L, Issue 14980, 29 May 1914, Page 3
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