GIRL SHOT

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1931, Page 3

GIRL SHOT

ON RETURN FROM DANCE. AIA RRI ED AIA NACO Li S ED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) HASTINGS, April 7. As the outcome, of a sensational shooting affray here at. one o’clock this morning, Mavis Steele Smith, 23, daughter of Alfred, Thomas Smith, Pakowhai Road, was admitted to lios- , pital suffering from grave wounds to her head angi hack, allegedly caused by Herbert Frederick Nunn, 13, of Havelock North. It is not improbable the girl will succumb to her injuries. Nunn appeared before. Air T. B. McNeil, S.iVl.j at Hastings, this morning. He, was formally charged with attempted murder, and was remanded for a week. Accused, who is said to have a wile and child.at Wellington, is retired, of comfortable means, and is a well-known identity here. It appears that the girl, who has been, receiving Nunn’s attentions for some time, drove borne with a male friend in bis car, and said good-night. He drove away, and she bad almost reached the door of the house when a shot rung out. It is supposed at the present moment that Nunn was lying waiting in the grounds till the girl returned from a party she had attended, and which he had not. Her parents heard the shot, which was fired from an ordinary shotgun, and found the girl lying four paces from the house, parts ol wh'eli were struck by the shot. She v. as semi-conscious, but was able to nth,. Nunn’s tun.me to Senior-Sergeant Oa" roll and Detective Earquliarson, who arrested Nunn several hours later at his house in Havelock North. Nunn is a quiet man. He lias been working for some weeks as a voluntary clerk in connection with earthquake relief work.