Extraordinary Shooting Case near Daylesford.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3047, 20 November 1878, Page 2

Extraordinary Shooting Case near Daylesford.

Datlesfobd, Thursday. At 9 o'clock this morning, a farmer named William Hussey* went into the paddock of a neighbor, W. H. Newton, at Mount Prospect, armed with a doublebarrelled gun, and, without saying a word, lie levelled the weapon at William Emmerson, Newton's ploughman. Emmerson seeing the action, goi behind the plough horse. Newton's son, who was, ploughing a short distance from Emmerson, seeing his danger; attempted to get out of the way, when Hussey changed his aim and fired at Newton. The latter stopped, and miraculously escaped, as the ball lodged in a stump a few feet from him in a line with and above his head. The men and others who were working in the paddock ran for. the Telegraph Hotel, situated at the corner of the paddock, Hussey after them. They got'into the 'hotel and hid, with the exception of a maa

t named John Robinson. Hussey ran wildly about the house seeking for Newton to

murder hitti, when Eobinsbn grappled with him, and lifter a desperate struggle Eobinson got Hussey down, and with assistance secured and disarmed him after a desperate fight. The other barrel of the gun wus loaded, and in his pocket Hussey bad a six-chambered revolver with all the barrels loaded. Hussey raved violently for some time,- when he suddenly got quiet, and appeared to sleep. Trooper Thynne came and took him to the Daylesford lock up in a cart, he being all the time insensible. He was taken.to

the hospital, and never recovered consciousness, and died in 20 minutes after

admission notwithstanding the exertions of the medical men. The cause o£ the attempt was a" bad feeling between Newton and Hussey, as the former had impounded Hussey's cattle, and it is said Hussey drank a quart of gin that morning before the occurrence. He had on his person over £2,000. •