The Napier Shooting Case
TEN YEARS RENAL SERVITUDE. [Own Correspondent.] Napier, December 4. In the Supreme Court yesterday, John Sylvester was convicted of shooting at James Leslie Chalmers with intent to murder him. The prisoner had been employed some years on the Railway as a bridge carpenter, and was recently discharged, that fact being communicated to him through the foreman, Mr. Chalmers. This seemed to have led to prisoner thinking Chalmers had procured his dismissal. On the afternoon of October 2nd the prisoner accosted Chalmers near the railway line at Waipukurau. Prisoner had a revolver and told Chalmers he was going to shoot him. Chalmers called for help, but the prisoner said : “ It’s no use saying anything ; you are a dead man,” and fired, but the shot did not take effect, A struggle ensued, and other persons coming up, tne prisoner was secured. His Honor in passing a sentence of ten years penal servitude said the prisoner might be thankful.he had escaped the penalty which would have befallen him had he succeeded in killing Chalmers.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 301, 4 December 1884, Page 2
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175The Napier Shooting Case Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 301, 4 December 1884, Page 2
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