A Mysterious Shooting Case.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 203, 26 February 1895, Page 2

A Mysterious Shooting Case.

o (t'er Press Association.) Chbistchubch, February 25. A shooting affair took place at the Port Hills this afternoon when Mr John W. Otten, who looks after Marley's cottage, about four miles beyond the Convalescent Home, was wounded by a halfcaste Mauri boy named Daniel Kelly The boy had been committed to Burnham from Auckland and then licensed out to a person at Lincoln. There he is suspected of having broken into the house and stolen a double barrelled gun from Lincoln. This morning Otten started out to look for the boy. He says his dog started a rabbit, and he went into the scrub to try to get a shot at it when he was suddenly confronted by the Maori boy, who at a distance of only two yards, fired a shot gun wounding Otten "on the right side. Otten came down as far as Cashmere, Wilson's coachman bringing him on from there to the hospital. The police went to the Port Hills to-day to search for the Maori boy, found him very seriously injured, a charge of shot having struck him iv the left jaw, which was smashed and the shot was lodged in the mouth and at the base of the brain He was brought to the hospital, but is not expected to live through the night. Later. The Hospital surgeon who examined Otten found his lace burned and blackened by the powder, and a graze on the top of his head which might have been caused by a wad.