WIFE FOR A TARGET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 253, 24 March 1914, Page 5

WIFE FOR A TARGET.

THE SAWYER'S BAY SHOOTING CASE. A WOMAN'S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE Dunedin, Last Night. Further particulars concerning the shooting incident at Sawyer's Bay yesterday show that Green went to Perry's house, where his wife wag housekeeper, and, with Perry's consent, entered the kitchen. Green asked his wife to go tor a walk, as he had something to say to her. She refused, and he nroduced a revolver. She threw her hands up to protect her head, and realised that she had been sliot in the hands and the upper portion of the body. Green pulled out a razor and made a lunge at her, but she dashed for the back dftM, which she managed to get open., She scrambled over the back fence, and. fell into a vacant section adjoining, The only reason she could, give for her husband's behaviour- jg that she d**. clined to live with him until Ik- pro . vided herself and children wi*\ a uome She had two the head, and on thi> shoulder, where the ballets had passed through and afterwards penetrated her neck below chu angle of the jaw. On the left side thepe were two wounds in the scalp above the left car, and the comb bus was Awatjag ima Been smashed to uicct-ji, There was also a wound on the left thumu, evidently made by a bullet passing through it. Green then wpnt tfi Port Chalmers, and gave himself up to the police, accused is about 35 years of age. On examining the kitchen where the shooting occurred, a constable found -a bullet embedded in the cupboard door, about fivtf feet above the floor. Another bullet had struck the window sill, and, glancing up, had shattered the window pane. Two spent llijllets were found on the floor. A six-chamberC." 1 American Bulldog revolver, which he'purchni; ed on Saturday, was used by the ac cused.

Green was foroiaily charged at Port Chalmers this morniim- with Attempted wife murder, and was remanded to appear at Dunediu on Monday next. THE WOMAN RECOVERING. nll * i , Dune(,in > Last Night. Bullets have been extracted from Mrs ureens neck and shoulders, and she is now progressing towards recovery