CONSTABLE WADE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 88, 22 November 1912, Page 5

CONSTABLE WADE.

SHOT IN BTQMACm. Frem th«j "Times' " s«HsatieH»l account of the sensatieHal eewirreaees at Waihi on Tuesday of lasfc week w© extract the following dealing with the attack on the Union Hall: "CONSTABLE WOUNDED. "The police by this titne were amongst them. Two more shot? were fired, at the back of the building. Constable Wade, of Wellington, receiving a bullf-t in the pit of the'gtomaeh. Hβ immediately batoned his assailant, 3, picket jiam'e<i Frederick Evans, and th«R cel-ia-ppsd. 'tiiq'Uil.v the bullet did not enter the constable's stomach, direct, b.ut glanced somewhat, thus probably savins bis lite. Ho was carried out and fionwyeel m the hospital. Evans's condition, is now very precarious. Other shots were fired by a picket. Jones, who is now ur.fJef arrest. Tho workers have fcivcn some of the Tnqst prominent Federntionisis a v/arjiing to get out of the town." "' The latest reports are that Constable "VVadc is making marked progress towards recovery.