A SHOOTING AFFRAY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8340, 29 January 1913, Page 7

A SHOOTING AFFRAY

FOLLOWS DOMESTIC TROUBLES,

Press- Association,

LEVIN, January 28. At tbe Levin S.M. Court to-day John Horrox Whellan appeared charged with shooting at John Wilkinson, with intent to do bodily harm. The police statement showed that the charges arose out of domestic infelicity. Wilkinson arrived in Levin on Monday night, ostensibly to see tho Agricultural and Pastoral show next' Wednesday. Whellan tracked him to his (Whellan’s) house, and found him in the bedroom. Wilkinson ran out, and Whellan fired twice at him with a revolver, but did not hit him.

Whellan’s counsel submitted that Whellan had no intent to do more than frighten Wilkinson, over whom he had had previous marital disagreements. Interrogated by tho Bench Wilkinson said he had no fear of W’hellan repeating tho offence with which he was charged. , Mr Blenkhom, who was counsel for Whellan, submitted that his client was in tho worse physical condition of the two. It was obvious he had no intent to do actual harip, and it was the false outcry by Wilkinson that ho had been shot that had caused Whellan mental distress and caused "Whellan to alarm the neighbourhood. Detective Lewis, who appeared for the police, objected to tho proposal to have accused admitted to bail purely on his own recognisances, but the Bench, Messrs Gardener and Remington, J.P.’s, eventually took this course, it being pointed out that the_ accused. comparatively a recent arrival in Levin, might have difficulty in obtaining outside bail. •

The case was remanded to February 3rd, bail being granted on AVhellan’s own recognisance of £SO. conditional on reporting himself daily to tho police.