FUSILLADE OF SHOTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2138, 2 May 1914, Page 5

FUSILLADE OF SHOTS

WIFE BADLY WOUNDED

SAWYERS' BAY SENSATION

(By Telegraph,—Prcsa Association.) Dunedln, May 1. Geo. H. Green was brought before Mr. J. R. Bartholomew, S.'AI., at the Police Court this morning, and chargcd that on March 22, at Sawyers' Bay, ho attempted to commit murder by discharging a loaded revolver at Eleanor Maud Green (his wife). Eleanor Maud Green said that she had been married ten years, but had obtained a separation from her husband a year ago. They had fivo children, four of whom wero in an orphanage and on© lived with hor. Since tho order Was granted, accused had been arrested three times for failing to maintain her. On March 22 she was housekeeper for Mr. Herbert Perry, a married mail, at Sawyers] Bay. About 3 o'clock sho was sitting in tho kitchen with her littlo boy, aged sovon years. The boy went to tho door, and said that his fatlior was thero. Witness wont to tho door, and asked hor husband in. Sho asked him to have a cup of tea. Mr. Perry was having tea with her, and her husband refused to have tea, but took a drink of water. Mr. Perry. went out, and left tho accused, tho boy and witness in tho kitchen. Her husband

. asked her if sho was going to livo with him again. Ho also asked her to go 3 for a walk, as ho had something to talk ovor with her. Sho did not go, and ho again asked her if sho would go back to him, but she told him that • he had no homo.

'. At this time (continued Mrs. Green) he had his hand in his right coat pocket, aiid she saw him take a revolver But, and fire thrco shots. Tho first shot hit her, but sho did not know where. Tho second one hit her on the head, and, nftor she got it,' sho lay in a corner. The third shot struck her, but she could not say ■ whore. After tho first shot tho boy left, and when she regained_ consciousness accused had a razor in his hand; sho could not say whether it was open or not. The boy had returned by this time, and sho took him out, and they got into tho kitchen of Mr. Main's houso. She crawled in and lay down on tho bed. I'rom the tinio that her husband fired the first shot : until sho got out of the house ho did not speak. When they wero living together her husband said that if over ho killed himself ho would kill her, too, so that no one else could get her. ' Her jaw was broken by one of tlio shots, and was not quite right Jot.

"Used to Threaten to Kill M§." Asked if ho had any question to put to witness, accused said; "Xou bor when wo lived at Palmerston North. Did I not tlien suffer from mental deprossion?" Witness: Not that I know of. ! • Did I ever ask you in the North ' Island to liido my razors as I was afraid of killing myself?—" You used to threaten to kill me." Accused questioned witness at length its to his business engagements, and said (when asked by His Worship what his questions had to do with tho case) that there was someone behind it all. Mrs. Green, in tho course of further evidence, stated that it was not out of vindictiveness that sho had had him arrested in connection with maintenance, but becauso tho orphanage was . threatening to put the children into an I indus^ml ; ,?9h0q1„,,1t -mas. not, .-two that sho had.- showji: him -ipictures'.-of nude women while she was at Perry's*. It was accused who, carried such pictures about, with him and showed them to ' b , cr ' Accused: Do you remember that, when I charged you at Perry's with unfaithfulness, you could not deny it, but .hung your head, blushed with shame, and could not answer? ' , . ' Witness , replied that it was not true, .and that accused knew that it was not ■true. Mrs. Crean's injuries. ; Dr. Boirio described Mrs. Green's injuries. Thero were two wounds on the left shoulder, another wound oil the lieck, three scalp wounds on tho left sido of tho head, and tho comb which she bad been wearing had been broken by a. bullet. Sho also had a bullet wound in tho thumb. . Herbert Perry said that ho had been outside about two minutes when he hoard cries of "Murder 1" from Mrs. Green and some shots. Ho turned back to the house and found Mrs. Green outside. She got over a. fence into Main's. Witness met accused coming out of the kitchen, and was asked if his name was .lorry. Witness replied in the affirmatiyo, and accusod said, "A fine crisis things bare como to now. Aro there any 'Johns' about?" Witness ' asked him what ho meant by "Johns." ''Policomep," accused explained, and then said, "Where is sho now? I've stillgot one charge left, and if I get her that will do her." Lator accused came into the kitchen and asked witness to accompany him to Port Chalmers, saying that „ he wanted to givo tho police as little trouble as possible. , To accused: Ho paid Mrs. Green 10s. ia week and sometimes gavo her 2s on pay-day for having mado tea. for him when he was working overtime. Ho'had no pictures of women in his liouso • ho did not go in for that sort of tiling. '

Intrusion on a Bereaved Homo. James Main was the next witness. Ho said that after Mrs. Green went to his house accused arrived and insisted on being allowed in to see Mrs. Green. AVitness refused to give him permission, because his own father was lying dead in a room in the honso at tho time. Green remarked to him beforo going away: "It is not finished yet; I have another left." Accused, who pleaded not guilty, was committed to tho Supreme Court for trial.