“SHOCK MADE ME PULL TRIGGER”
MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER OF GAMEKEEPER By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 1.3 p.m. LONDON, Wed. “I heard a shout of, ‘Hands up!’ “I tried to escape, and someone called out, ‘Shoot, Bill!’ “Then I felt a pain in my thigh. The shock made me pull the trigger. "Simultaneously, I felt the charge of the other man’s gun hit my shoulder and face. I went home and dressed the wounds.” This was the accused’s statement read in court against Enoch Dix, charged with the murder of William Walker, a gamekeeper on the Earl of Temple’s estate at Bristol, who was shot at midnight hy poachers. Mr. Walker, who accompanied a younger gamekeeper, heard- shots ani kept watch. The poachers approached and when face to face with Mr. Walker the latter challenged them. One man lifted a rifle and fatally shot Mr. Walker in the stomach. —A. and N.Z.-Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 174, 13 October 1927, Page 1
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