SHOT IN SERGEANTS’ MESS.
Loxjjon, Jan 13
A coroner’s jury at Newport (Aloti) yesterday returned a verdict of Wilful Alnrder against Sergt Michael Sullivan, Royal Defence Corps, who is in police custody charged with fatally shooting Sergt John Alacdonald, of the same corps, in the sergeants’ mess at their camp.
After a game of cirds Sullivan left the mess and went*in the direction of his sleeping-lint. On a hook over their beds the men keep their rifles, which are supposed to be unloaded. About five minutes later Sullivan, it was alleged, returned with a rifle and fired at Macdonald, the top of whose head was shattered. When the rifle was taken from him, Sullivan, it was alleged, said to a corporal, “ There was one for you,” and to the military police, *• I intended it, and if the sergeant-major had been here 1 would have had him too.”
One witness stated that after filing Sullivan swore at Macdonald and leloadod his rifle. During the day Sullivau had been “ somewhat strange.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1919, Page 3
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169SHOT IN SERGEANTS’ MESS. Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1919, Page 3
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