A SHOOTING AFFRAY.
MAORI IN SERIOUS CONDITION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Waimate, Last Night. A young Maori, named Mason Boko, was brought to the Waimate Hospital to-day with a bullet in his head. He stated to the police that he had been drinking with Charles Boyes at the lattcr's house, near Morvcn, seven miles from here. The police have been out all the afternoon in quest of Boyes, who is alleged to have fired the shot. Later. Dr. Pitts has just operated on the Maori. He traced the bullet from the cheek wound at the edge of the mouth to the back of the neck, but has not yet extracted it. The patient's condition is serious. The Maori's version of the affair is that he and Boyes were drinking and playing cards. At eleven o'clock he said he was going home. Boyes turned nasty and let off a revolver at him. Boyes' own story is that he was showing .the Maori whut lie would do to the police the next time he met them, when the revolver accidentally discharged.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 March 1918, Page 4
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178A SHOOTING AFFRAY. Taranaki Daily News, 9 March 1918, Page 4
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