MAN FOR TRIAL
Charge of Firing Revolver at Storekeeper INCIDENT AT WOODEND By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, January 10. Leslie Pearce, labourer, aged 29, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge, to‘which he pleaded not guilty, of discharging a revolver at Charles Bourke Bourne with intent to do grievous bodily harm, anti for sentence on a charge to which he pleaded guilty of breaking and entering Bourne's shop with intent to commit a crime therein. Both offences were alleged to have been committed at Woodend on November 28, 1934. The charges were the sequel to a sensational incident in the early morning when a"storekeeper discovered intruders in his shop and fired a gun in the air, calling ou the men to come out. Shots were fired with a revolver from inside the shop, and Bourne was later hit on the left hand by a bullet wheu the men were making their escape. The principal police witness was Robert. James Mitchell, who said he was with accused when the shop was broken into and the shots were fired.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 96, 17 January 1935, Page 11
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180MAN FOR TRIAL Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 96, 17 January 1935, Page 11
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