MURDER CHARGE
DEATH OF MRS. AYES
WEAPON FROM HARBOUR
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
HASTINGS, October 4.
The charge of attempted murder preferred against Colin Herbert Hercock (21), grocer's assistant, Waipawa; will be changed to one of murder when he next appears at the Magistrate's Court, Napier, as Annie Isobel Ayes, aged 51, victim of the shooting case at West Shore, died at the Napier Hospital late on Monday night. The first step in .the case was taken today when an inquest was opened before the district Coroner, Mr. J. Miller, at the hospital and adjourned sine die after evidence of identification by a son of Mrs. Ayes, George Olliver Craike. The funeral of Mrs. Ayes will take place tomorrow, the cortege leaving her house, Fergusson Avenue, West Shore, for Hastings. The rifle with which the murder is alleged to have been committed was recovered today from the harbour by the Napier Harbour Board diver. Hercock is believed to have driven a car from West Shore through Port Ahuriri after the tragedy and to have dropped the rifle at the breakwater before going to the police station to give himself up.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 9
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