ATTEMPTED MURDER.
CHARGE AGAINST RANGER. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Oct. 12. Two charges of attempted murder against Jamei Scott Main, Acclimatisation Society’s ranger, were heard in the Magistrate’s Cpurt to-day. The cases arose out of an affray at Springston on September 14, when bullet wounds were sustained by two men, Bartholomew M‘Evedy and Bernard Nuttall, the former being wounded in the wrist and thigh, the latter in the i hand. Medical evidence was given regarding the nature of the wounds, which were not serious. M'Evedy stated that he arrived, at the hotel at half past eleven at night in company with his brother, entered the hotel and had drinks. He heard a disturbance in the commercial room and ascertained that Main, who was mad I drunk, had been ejected. Later on cutside the hotel Main held up witness and others with a revolver, saying he would shoot any one who moved. The revolver was fired and witness was hit twice and fell to the ground. Nuttall gave evidence that accused, aecosted him in the hotel, making offensive remarks about the ladies in a motoring party. Witness remonstrated, and Main was removed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1921, Page 3
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