MAN WOUNDED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 79, 10 April 1913, Page 6

MAN WOUNDED.

WHERE DTD SHOOTING OCCUR? During the early hours of Sunday morning (23rd ult), says a Melbourne message, John King was shot in the thigh with a revolver by an assailant whose identity he refuses to divulge. It is believed by tho police that the affair took place in Explora-tion-lane, a slum thoroughfare of Lons-dale-strect, though the victim insists that the scene of the shooting was in Young-street, Fitzroy. On his admission to St. Vincent's Hospital, King was operated upon for a bullet wound in the thigh. Walter. Thomas, a horse dealer, residing at Exploration-lane, has told tho police that at an early hour in the morning three men who were having an altercation entered his yard. Thomas heard one of the men say, "Now, will you go way?" Three revolver shots* were then fired in quick succesi sion, whereupon Thomas sent for the police. When the police arrived the three men had' disappeared. In the course of an examination of Thomas's premises, tho police failed to find bullet marks, but for a distance of 30 yards outside the. back .gate bloodstains were found. It was subsequently ascertained

| that at 1 a.m. a man giving his name [ as Frederick Williams, of Bay-street, Port Melbourne, called at the Melbourne Hospital, suffering from a bul- | let wound in the thigh. He was acI companied by a man, who gave his| name as Frank Gaynor, and ins re-1 sidence as 39 Lygon-street, Carlton. The sufferer, who was atatended to by Dr. Tait, refused to remain at the institution, When interviewed by the police, King was stubbornly rletiv cent as to what took place. He stuck to his story that he was shot by a woman in Young-street, Fitzroy, near Gertrude-street, and added, "J. refuse to answer any more questions. We get into this sort of thing, and we have to get out of it." Thomas Currie, a friend of King's, said that he and King went into the city on Saturday night and had drinks together. "I got beastly drunk." added Currie, "and have very little recollection of what occurred." He said that after the hotels had closed he remembered being in Young-street, Fitzroy, with King. There were several men and women fighting in the street, and while Currie and King were looking on one of the women drew a revolver and fired several shots, one of which struck King.