SHOOTING AFFRAY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 252, 14 March 1913, Page 5

SHOOTING AFFRAY

MOTORISTS ATTACKED. WHOLESALE REVOLVER PLAY. Per Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A sensational shooting affray occurred near Takapuna to-day, by which Percy Uobert Skeates (motor garage proprietor)- and Robert -lames .Manna (driver for the firm) received wounds. Skeates was shot five times, the bullets lodging one in the right armpit (slightly injuring a lung), the back of the right hand, the left upper arm, and one in the right upper eyelid, and one grazing the chest, ilanna was hit by | three bullets, one lodging in his right j shoulder blade, being the most, serious, tile others merely grazing him. Both men will recover. According to a statement by one of the injured men a man -who wished to purchase a car was taken for a drive. I he would-be purchaser left the, car for a minute and suddenly opened fire 011 Ilanna and Skeates with a revolver. Skeates fell over at the first shot, while Ilanna jumped out. The assailant fired more shots at Skeates, who lay on the road. Ilanna, believing Skeates to be dead, sought safety in flight. The assailant then took possession of the car and drove back to Takapuna, informing the police that there had been some shooting by persons in a motor car. I fauna also returned to the police station.

A party went out and brought Skeates back to the hospital. Robert Jasper Crago, alleged to be the assailant, has been arrested. He is about nineteen years of a<>e.