TWO BAILIFFS SHOT AT.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1753, 24 July 1895, Page 2

TWO BAILIFFS SHOT AT.

ONE MAN SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. ARREST OF THE PERPETRATOR. iNVEhCARGnn,, Sunday. Yesterday afternoon, two bailiffs, Middlemass and Hugh Stewart, of Gore, proceeding to execute a warrant on the farm of John Keown, Balfour, were ordered to stop by Keown, when about two chains from the house. As they continued to advance, Keown fired, and the charge of shot struck Stewart about the head. The man rolled off his horse in the yard. Middlemass does not seem to have done anything for his companion, but galloped to TtiVersha'ie, some hisktnnru J away, to apprise the police at Gore and other stations, although there is ji telephone to Balfour. Middlemass said Stewart was dead, but the latest information is to the effect that it is not so, although the man lay in the yard and afterwards in the shed on a very frosty night. He . must be badly .hit, as he was unable to move from where he fell till two men carried him into the shed. ' Middlomas says Keown fired at him the day before. Constable Herlihy, from Waihaia, was the first to reach Keown’s house. He found him in bed, and told him he • was a constable, to which Keown responded that he supposed he had come to arrest him for shooting the man outside. Keown is a middle-aged man with a family, and is said to have been drinking lately. A doctor has gone from Gore, * and probably Lumsden, to attend Stewart, but the Balfour telephone cannot be got to-day, and the extent of the injur- • ies therefore are unknown here.