SENSATIONAL INCIDENT
A KELATIV-ES' DIFFEKENCE. KNIFE AND IUFLE USED. iiy Telegraph.- Proas Association. Dunediu, Last Night. A sensational incident happened at North Dunediu at about 7 o'clock tonight. A young man named John Stephen Toome.y went to his home in Cumberland-street, and it is alleged a dispute arose- between, him and his steplather, Daniel McCurdy, a farmer Inoccupation. The latter, it is .-aid, threw a knife at Tooniey, eul ting him on the arm, and Tooniey, leaving the room, procured a lille and tired at .UcCurdy through the window, the bullet striking McCurdy in the thigh. Tooniey was arrested on a charge of discharging lirearms with intent to do grievous bodily harm. McCurdy walked to the hospital, where he was attended to. It is not thought probable that the bullet lodged, in "hi* h'a-
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 300, 15 December 1908, Page 2
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134SENSATIONAL INCIDENT Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 300, 15 December 1908, Page 2
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