ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER.
MAN FOUND SHOT. Oamaru, May 29. On Saturday evening, at 5 o’clock, Herbert' Symons was found at bis home with a bullet wound in his left shoulder, caused by a pea rifle. Ho was removed to the hospital. A younger brother, Allan, when about to board a slow train for Dunedin, was arrested and placed in custody to appear on a charge of attempted murder. It is alleged that Herbert intervened when Allan was about to punish a boy for throwing clods of earth at him while working in a garden, Allan running away saying, “I’ll get you for this.” As he was about to leave for his sleeping hut, Herbert was shot in the left shoulder, the bullet striking the bone, mushrooming, and rebounding into his cloth-
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3645, 31 May 1927, Page 3
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131ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3645, 31 May 1927, Page 3
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