SHOCKING OUTRAGE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 275, 23 June 1888, Page 4

SHOCKING OUTRAGE.

Iw i.KCvui.n,],, June 19. Tins afternoon, a* Dr. (ialbraith was passing along the stieet in Xoith Invctcargill. a passer-by -a\s 'i man named John Malone\, inspector ot nuisances for Llic boiough, following the doetoi "\v ii t li a double barrelled gun. The doctor turned and .■-poke to Maloney, but what passed between them lias not lian-pirecl, when Maloney i.ii&ed the «un and deJiberately tiled <it him. The doctor was sc\eicl\ wounded in tin- thigh, the log iiom the hip to the knee being liddled with a hea\y charge ot -hot llr fell to the gioinnl, and .Malone) walked au.iy. The doctoi wa.s put into a pa-sin<4 tiap and lnou<»ht to his i evidence m town, v, licie -ovcial colleagues who had assembled attended to his in]une.s. The doetoi is an uldei 1\ man, and i^ Milleiiiirr ftoni the slioek It) the *y.s.(om. The i>olice went out to Maloney - house, and found a with one ban el recently di-ichai^ed Tliu family they knownothing of his w hei u.ibouLs. but he was found in the backy.ud and aiiestedwith out lesisiance On the way to the lock-up h«' talked incoiisi^Lently ot the outia^e, which ib Mippo-ed to be tlie outcome ot an insane giudue against Ihe medical pto iess.iuu I )r. ( Wdbi aith hash, id nodealinn u ith Maloney for years. The lattei honi a cluoiiic tlit.ea.-e, and about li\e yeai.s a^ r o lie Mied Di. Cotterell in the Sunieme t'ouit toL damages' toi alleged malt) eatment. Thu action bioke dow-n, and the (juestion ot Maloney'.s sanity was aftei wauls laisxxl, he having stated he would "witiji"' Dr. C'otterell. Dr. (ialbiaith, with otho medical men, declined to certify that ho was insane, and Maloney seen in to ha>o liarbouied a giudge a«ain.st him and the other doetois since. Although he ha-> been a borough oflicial Joi some years, many have had doubts a* to his mental condition. This day. j Malonevwas brought before the R..M. on j the charge oi attempted murder, and was | icmauded for eight days.