SENSATION AT WANGANUI.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2129, 18 May 1920, Page 3

SENSATION AT WANGANUI.

MAYOR ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER. BAIL REFUSED. Wanganui, May 10. The greatest and .most painful sensation Wanganui has experienced for some considerable time Avas u shooting affray in Ridgway Street on Saturday afternoon, and the arrest of C. E. Maekay, solicitor, and Mayor of the borough, for shooting at and badly wounding a returned soldier named Cresswell, avlio bails from Timaru. The police are very ireticent over the affair, but it is slated Unit an altercation took place in Mackay’s office, and the crashing of a chair through a window preceded ihe report of a gun. A eon-' stable went to Hie office and found Cresswell in a slate of collapse, sitting on one of the steps of the staircase. The Avonnded man Avas removed to (he hospital. Maekay was subsequently charged before the Court with attempted murder, and Mr TreadAvell, avlio appeared for bin), asked for bail. Inspector llendrey opposed (lie application, in viinv of the seriousness of the charge, and the Court upheld the objection. The accused Avas re-, manded in custody until Monday morning.

/Maekay Avas completely broken up, and appeared to realise-bis position most, keenly. What led up to the offence remains a mystery so far as the public is concerned. He recently had a disagreement Avith the heads of the Returned Soldiers’ Association over the Prince’s visit, and he was subjected to much hostile criticism from that quarter. 'Mr and Mrs Creswell, parents of the Avonnded man, left Christchurch on Saturday,night, and arrived here yesterday. Later. As the outcome of the sensational shooting incident on Saturday afternoon, C. E. Maekay was remanded for a week’ al (he Magistrate's Court I his morning on a charge of the allempled murder of Waller D'Atvy Cresswell. Bail was refused, the prosecuting counsel stating that the injured man was not yet out of danger.