A SHOOTING CASE

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1947, 4 March 1919, Page 3

A SHOOTING CASE

FATHER ATTACKED BY SON

West port. Yesterday

At Burnell’s Face this morning, John Walshe shot his lather, Michael Walshe, whose condition is critical, AValshe, senior, has bullets iu his’head and chest. It is alleged that WaHhe was healing Ids wife while under the inlluonec of liquor, and bis sou picked up a rille and fired. SON CHARGED WITH SHOOTING II.IS PAT HER. Westport, Yesterday. John Walshe, who is charged with shooting his father, Michael Walshe, at Burnett’s Face, on Saturday, is 22 years of age. A domestic disturbance was af the bottom of the trouble. It is said that the father was using bad language in front of his largo family and abusing his wife. Young Walshe chastised bis father, who chased him into a room. The door was locked, ami Walshe tried to gel at his son through a window, when the young fellow produced a revolver and tired two shots. One entered (he father’s nose ami lodged in Ids mouth; the other entered below the fifth rib. Walshe fell to the ground, and the young fellow went, to a neighbour's house and awaited arrest by a eonsi able. Walshe, senior, was moved to Demdston Hospital. The face wound is not serious, hut that in (he chest is believed to he dangerous. Young Walshe was brought in custody to Westport on Saturday evening, and lodged in prison. This morning he will lie brought before the Magistrate’s Court and charged with causing actual grievous bodily harm. Later. John Patrick AValshe was undefended when he appeared in Court, at 10.39. He was remanded till 13th March, no hail being asked for. Alichael Walshe remains in the same condition. Late inquiries show a danger of haemorrhage setting in in the chest wound.