A WELLINGTON MYSTERY
ATTEMPT TO KILL A MAN,
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, last night.
What appears to be a case of attempted murder was reported to the police last night by a municipal fire brigadesinan named Alexander Hogg. His Btory is that while walking dower Lower Cuba street shortly after eight o'clock, he was aeoosted by a woman with whom he got into conversation. A few minutes later a man appeared on the scene, and demanded to know what Hogg meaut by being with his wife. The man then struck Hogg in the face, knocking him down, and while the latter was on the ground fired at him with a revolver, the bullot entering Hogg’s left leg. The man and woman then made off, Hogg was removed to the hospital. He says he does not know either the man or woman.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 952, 27 July 1903, Page 2
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