EXTRAORDINARY SHOOTING CASE AT BAIRNSDALE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1980, 12 May 1875, Page 2

EXTRAORDINARY SHOOTING CASE AT BAIRNSDALE.

;-At .the Bairnsdale Police Court, on Tuesday, a nan named Watt, a carpenter, was brought up for discharing a revolver pistol iire <several times the previous afternoon at Mr., Wright, landlord of the Lucknow- Hotel, at Lucknow. > The.evidencc.shovred that Mr Wright, who was" sitting in a room adjoining the bar with his wife and infant, in the early part ©f the afternoon of Mouday, hearing ' some one enter tlio bar.' went thither,' where he found the-prisones Watt, wfio made a demand for money, alleging it to be due from Wright On the latter repudiating liability, the prisoner produced a six-chambered revolver, and instantly discharged it at Mr Wright, the bullet lodging in the partition on the other side of the room. Mr Wright then made his exit from the bar into or rather through, the room where he had previously left Mrs Wright and tho infaut; but on leaving, an.i when going through the doorway, the prisoner fired a second shot, the bullet going through the door, and it is conjectured, | struck a substance on the far side of the room,, when it rebounded, and-waipicked ' up from Ihe tiuor. Mr and Mrs Wright with the infant, made their escape by a door openiig into a passageY/wluch passage leads to the yard at tiie i >f - e|f..\T'hey were closely followed, by^^lj^pns'bper, who subsequently an I inq'tuct'succession fired three more shots at Wright, making, five in all. 'Yhn prisoner then went into the front verandah, apd recharged his revolver,- whiqh was so found when he was apprehended by the police The bullet from the second shot had been' found embedded in the woodwork of the partition between the bar arid siltingroom. It was also found that the bullet from the fourth shot had gone through the paling of the gate through which Mrs and Mr Wright passed, and which communicates with the yard from the main road. The charge was partly heard by the Bench, when the prisoner was remanded for the' production of a witness until Wednesday, when he was committed for trial. Mr and Mrs Wright' and the poor little babyj have had a miraculous escape from death.: The prisoner arrived in Sale" yesterday! everiing.-^Grippsland Times April 17? |