EDENDALE SHOOTING CASE.
FURTHER PARTICULARS. BY TELEGRAPH —PER PKESS ASSOCIATION. INVERCARGILL, June 22. Particulars regarding the shooting of Miss Brown, at Edendale, show that Stott had been drinking. He was a friend of the father of the girl. On Saturday night, at 6 o'clock/'Stott returned to Edendale, and went to Brown's house, and said that he wanted to fight Brown. Mary Brown induced him to go away* He returned between 9 and 10 o'clock, and knocked at the door, which Miss Brown opened. He threatened to shoot the whole family. He had a gun, and said to the young woman —"You are the one I want to shoot." She ran into the bedroom, and when closing the door Stott fired at close, range, the shot going through the door, and taking effect in the girl's left shoulder. Miss Brown cried out— "You brute; you shot me." Stott replied—"That's what I wanted to do." The woman went to a neighbour's, and when the doctor arrived she was weak from the loss of blood. Stott was arrested av 2 o'clock in the morning. He was in bed. When told he had qhot Miss Brown he replied—"lf I did lam very sorry." Stott was brought beforo the Court and remanded.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9122, 23 June 1908, Page 5
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207EDENDALE SHOOTING CASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9122, 23 June 1908, Page 5
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