MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7989, 28 November 1905, Page 2

MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING CASE.

. 'tlVr Press Association.) M CKLAND, Nov. 27. .V soniewhuij mysterious shooting al>.:ir t('(.>!\ place in <!ivy Street j-hortly aiUr jiitie o'clock on Sunday r\filing, when a seventeen year okl \outh jinu(l |./oseph hodson was sl'nl in the wrist while opening lite , ai : th< i 'back i.l* iti.s 1 father's shop, U. appears ihat young Hudson into tli.' backward of his faih.'i'.'i shop to i:;cl some oats for a. horse. In his Ufl hand ho carried a. candle, and as he ,approached the i(e leading into ii)ri^lll of way he noi ic-d a man i'cnce. Iji order to -a <lu'Uvr look at- him. the ')>oy t*ais<•; 1 the candle, ,t,i.l with his ha ml sha;ji d his e\es. lie (hen heard a shot and fell a stini;- on ihe rk-.ht wrist. Hearing ihe report-, his la I her ran out. SmV (lie in'ruder had made tjiV -as soon ah he had iiivd. On e\ii;uinin«i t (•,,>. the father lonii-d thai, tile hnl!<-t had struck his son s wrist, and travelling thivu;;!\ tli" hand U.'dgvd near lh" knuckle oi his second linger. The father say? he c.imiot. iniat'A'ine what intent ion tho unknown person coii.d have had Tor j shooting at his sun.