Serious charge against a Southland Farmer.

Manawatu Herald, 23 July 1895, Page 2

Serious charge against a Southland Farmer.

On Saturday affcevnbon as two bailiff? named Middleniass and Hugh Stewart,' of Gore, were proceeding to exacute a warrant, at the farm pt John Ktowo,:Balfour, Ahey were ordered by Keown to stop when about two chains from the house; : As they . continued ■ to advance Keow.a ii^d^^pd/the ch«iige of shot struck' SteNvfart' afoout the Head, the man. rolling. -aff.Jiis hoxaa in .the yard. Middleniasa doe 9 not appear to have done anything for his companion, but galloped to Riveradale, some distance away, to apprise the police at Gore and other Rations, although there is a telephone; to Bilfour. •':■•>- -; Middlemass said Stewart was dead, but the latest information is to the effect that he is pot, although he ljay in the yard, and afterwavda : in; a shed, on a very frosty nigh^* -He must be badly- hit, ajr lae was iitidble to move froaV wheieflt^jfeir Ifll two men carried:him in^o th^ghed. Middlemass says Keowtt^fited at him the day before. : ' ' ''-\""' : '. Constable Herlihy, from Waikaia, was. the first to reach Keown ? s house. He found him in bed, and toldt him he was a constable, to ■which Keown responded that he supposed he had come to arrest him for shooting the man outside. Keown is a middle-aged man with a family, and it is\£*ais that hd.hast been drinking lately/ ' " '' A doctor has e;one from Gore, and another probably from Lumsden, to attend Stewart* bu^ the telephone cannot ETe got -td day, =andthe extent of the man's injuries is therefore unknown here. The first intimation of the shooting case at Bajfou'r gave the impress, sion thftt Stewart was dead, but the latest news states that he is alive, though shot through the head; -;■ Keo wn-b as -beeo arrested u :t The bfoUf&Jwent to place | to seize his horses. — Press Association.