SEQUEL TO BANK TRAGEDY

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 319, 29 December 1936, Page 5

SEQUEL TO BANK TRAGEDY

SHOOTING AFFRAY. YOUTH NOW CHARGED. Remanded At Invercargill Court. Press Association—Copyright. Invercargill, Last Night. The sequel to the tragedy on the Bank of New Zealand priemises early on Sunday morning, in which a youth, Michael Fletcher, was shot by a bank official and subsequently died, was heard today in the Police Court before Mr H. P. Lawny, S.M., when Oswald Cameron Cowie was charged that on December 27 he .killed Michael Fletcher.

Police Inspector Gibson asked for a remand until January 11, to which counsel for Cowie agreed, and asked for bail, which was fixed at £lOO and a surety of the same amount. Three youths, William Martin Robertson, Tangi Kitson and William Thomas McQuarrie, who were concerned in the matter, later appeared before the magis-

trate jointly charged with being found on the bank premises without lawful excuse under circumstances that did not disclose the commission of or intent to commit a crime. On the request of the police a remand was granted until January 11, bail being allowed of £lO each and a surety of a, similar amount. Nothing new about events leading up to the tragedy was revealed. Another of the bank’s revolvers was found to-day in a tree beside the building. It is stated that it was thrown out of the building during an argument before the shooting. The person who threw it told the police of his action and they found the weapon in the tree.