SHOT BY WOMAN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 98, 16 December 1931, Page 2

SHOT BY WOMAN

man critically wounded with sawn .off shot gun SYDNEY, Monday. Turning at a sudden- noise to find himself confronted by an armed woman, Robert Frederick Shepherd, 35, poultry farmer, of Kogarah, was shot just above tbe heart with a sawn-off shot gun, at his home recently. He was taken to St. George Hospital by tbe loeal ambulance in a critical condition, and his dying depositions will probably be taken. A woman has been charged. Constable Alex Mackintosh was sitting with his brother Lex on his verandah, at the corner of Hotham Road and the Prince's Highway, shortly before 3 "o'clock, when he heard tbe report of a gun, and a cry of pain, from Shepherd's home, opposite. The brothers rushed down the garden, and saw Shepherd, who was couV\ing blood, with the front of his qlothing already dyed red, trying to haul himself up by the aid of the fence. He fell back in a heap, gasping: "I've been shot. Get me a doctor." While his brother drove the wounded man to Dr. Sandbrook's suigevy, Constable Mackintosh rushed into the bush, on the chance of finding the assailant, but all he could discover was the shotgun.