SENSATION AT ONEHUNGA.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22212, 13 March 1900, Page 2

SENSATION AT ONEHUNGA.

A MAN SHOT' IN THE STREET. EXCITING SCENE AT THE CAPTURE. A serious shooting aff ay occurred’ about half-past eleven o’clock on Sunday morning at Onehunga. The circumstances are as follows : A man named James Brennan, a platelayer on the rail way j was returning from the morning service at the Roman Catholic Church, to his homo near To Papapa railway station, and when passing the residence of a-, man named James Donaghy, the latter, who was standing in the passage doorway, deliberately fired at him with a double-barrelledfowling piece, charged with No. 4 shot. The shot entered Brennan’s head and neck, bringing him to the ground. A young man named Alfred Goldsbury, shortly afterwards found the sufferer with his head and face covered with blood, but conscious. A young woman named Nixon heard tho report of a gun as she was sitting on the verandah, and looking Up she saw Brenan throw up his hands and fall down, at the same time she saw smoke issuing from a gun that Donaghy held in his hands. Goldsbury took Brennan to the residence of Mr W, Tapp, where he was kindly attended to. A messenger was then despatched' for a doctor, and another for the police. As all' the Onehunga doctors ' were away, Dr. Rowley, of Otahuhu, was communi cated with, and he arrived just on the heels of Dr Erson and Dr Alice Woodward. Cfn examination Doctor Erson found marks of several shot wounds on tho left side of the face above the eye, and also round the neck and left ear. Brennan was perfectly conscious but complained of great pain. He stated that he pave Donaghy no provocation to shoot him, and that he never even spoke to him. The left eye was much swollen, but there was no apparent evidence that anv of the shots, had entered the eyeball, After dressing the wounds Dr Erson advised Brennan’s removal to the district hospital. In the meantime Constable McNamara went to arrest Donaghy. When he arrived on the scene he -found the house closed and all the doors barricaded. Oa demanding admission, Donaghy, who was living by himself, refused to open the door, and shouted out that he would shoot any man who did so. Constable McNamara then forced the door open, with the assistance of four men, Messrs Dore; Walker, T. Williams, and Page. On entering they found Dor.aghv standing in the front passage, gun in hand, still threatening to shoot the first man who dared to enter the bouse. Anticipating resistance, and anxious to prevent further bloodshed, the constable asked a young man hamel Allen t> en'er the house b}- the hack window,. which he- did, unnoticed bj’ Donaghy. Just as Donaghy was taking aim at the men in front of him, Alb n pluck fly seized Iris arm, and the others coming in at the same instant th c *y secured him. As the eon®table and Allen seized Donaghy he fired the second barrel, fortunately without injuring any one, the shots penetrating the floor. Donaghy was then handcuffed and taken to tho lockup. Donaghv was brought un at (ho Police Court yesterday morn-ng and charged before Dr W R.Erson, J.P., and remanded for eight days.