EDENDALE SHOOTING CASE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 175, 15 July 1908, Page 3

EDENDALE SHOOTING CASE

. HTOlt BEFOKE THE COURT. "A RAVING LUNATIC WITH A OoN." ■* . A PLUCKY~CONSTABLE. / By Telegrapb,-Press Association. 20 at Edendale discharge a double-bar-relled B»* at Mary jfrown with intent *do grievous bodily harm. Accused was not represented by counsel. Inspector Mitchell said he did not eaU Miss Brown's parents, because on tne night of the occurrencee they botn were under the influence of liquor Mary Ann. Brown, aged 20, who is will a patient in the hospital, was extremely nervous in Court and the Inspector said she was in great fear of fctott, and deemed it advisable to seat' «er with her back to accused, and altaost hidden from him by the witness box, .while a constable stood at her «de. She said that she resided with Jer parents at Edendale, teaching at the Invercargill School. During the week, for a few days before the shoot- , **> «ie had been home on account of , jJI-nealth. On the day in question she , S. *** accnsed at the house. At I about dinner time witness went out < fccause she didn't want to stay there i With Stott. Later in the day, her father c and mother left for Invercargill, and a Stott remained having fun with wit- t ness' brothers and sisters. She left s the house again. Accused was back at s the house after tea. Her father, mo- o vitei, and brothers were witfi him. They *' were talking but not quarrelling. Ail n witness said to accused was to ask him a few times to go away. Accused said ti that if it had been any of the other J 1 young men she would not hare been , hunting him away like that. She didn't remember what she answered to that, f He told him that if he would go boms '■ he could come back the next day (Sim- P ' day). The father and mother had gone f" to bed when she kept asking Stott to J go away. Both her father and mo- H j tner had had some drink. When she ot told accused to come back next day he e q got angry and said that he would not bri come back. He then" went away, but in f witness did not know what time it im was. It was in the kitchen where the I tui

accused was sitting. After he went away she and her brother had some nipper, and were preparing to go to bed when somebody rapped hard at the back door. Somebody called out "Dolly, open the door." She knew it Was the accused's voice, and she told him to go away home. Accused said he .would come in, and witness got up and opened the door. As soon as she opened the door she saw a gun with bini. and ran into her bedroom. She had just got into her bedroom when the was shot in the left arm. Thought she called out to her little brother that she was shot, and accused said: "That's all right. 11l do for myself." She waited a minute till accused went out by the front doer and across to Mrs. Foster's.

That evening Dr. Baird came and attended her arm. Accused was away a good while before he came back and shot her. She was taken to the hospital the following Monday and had been there ever since.

Constable Bogue, who arrested accused, said Stott had Said: "Did I s'boot

Bert If I did I'm very sorry." Next morning when having breakfast in Uic lock-up, Stott asked if witness hadl

heard how the/girl was. Witness said be had not. Accused said: "It is a bad

affair, and I do not know what possessed me. Drink, I suppose."

. Accused reserved his defence and was committed for trial at Hie next sitting of the Supreme Court at Inrercargill

about the end of August. Bail was not allowed. Tie Bench took the opportunity, of publicly complimenting Constable Bogue on the pluck shown in fthe exercise of his duties under trying circumstances. "It is not every man," «iid Mr. Cruickshank, "who would go out alone and tackle a raving lunatic who had a gun."