Sensational Shoot i ng Affray
[By Telegraph from the Bluff.] Adelaide; November 11. A sensational shooting affray oc-curred-at North Adelaide on Saturday. *' Henry Edward Dewar, who seven years ago deserted his wife, putfin an appearance at the house at which she was living, she haviug married ?a'gaiu, ' believing him to be dead. Captain .Price, to whom she Tvas married, was abseot at Broken Mill in charge of "a mine, but his son, aged thirty, was staj'ing at the house. Dowar had purchased a revolver on Saturday nio niug. Young Price hearing him coming, locked the woman in a room, and stepped into the passage, fucing Dowar, who presented the loaded rerolver. He jumped at the weapon which went off, and tbe bullet entered his ankle. A struggle •ensued between the two. and Price, who was getting the worst of it, un locked the door, lottiug Mrs Dewar, ■out. She also had a loaded revolver, which, during the continuation of the struggle, went off and the bullet entered Dewar's groiu. Neither of the men is seriously injured. Mr and Mrß Dewar are both in custody of the police,
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 67, 23 November 1889, Page 3
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