HAIL OF BULLETS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 291, 21 November 1936, Page 6 (Supplement)

HAIL OF BULLETS.

CRIME IN MELBOURNE. SHIP’S ENGINEER SHOT. MELBOURNE, September 18. Before the eves of hundreds of people, Harry Hysman, ”8. fell before a hail of bullets discharged al him by the lone occupant of a two sealer motor car. while standing talking to two women on the Prince s Bridge this afternoon. Hysman was a third engineer on the Ni'ui Zeeland, and was shot in the back and arms, when five shots from a repeating rille were tired at him trom a car which had drawn up at the kern onlv a few minutes previously. At, the sound of the first shot pedestrians ran confusedly in all directions while two women attended to Hvbinan, the man In the ear started the engine and drove at a leisurely pace alfmg t he St. Kihla road before anyone had tuny realised what had occurred. It is understood Hysman left his ship only a couple of hours previously, and came' direct to the city. An X-ray examination revealed tn.it one bullet'had entered Hysman’s left shoulder, the other lour lowing miss' o hhn. , One eye-witness stated he saw m of the girls to whom Hysman was talking, step up to the man in the car ' She appeared to say something to him. and then started to run away. Immediately afterwards, the man tn the car produced a rille, and the firing occurred.