A DUNEDIN INCIDENT.
OF A SENSATIONAL CHARACTER.
YOUNG MAN SHOOTS AT HIS STEPFATHER. WOUNDS HIM IN THE LEG. By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, December 14. A sensational incident happened at North Dunedin about 7 o'clock tonight. A young man, named John Stephen Toomey, went to his home in Cumberland street, and it is alleged, a dispute arose between him and his stepfather, Daniel McCurdy, a farmer by occupation. The latter, it is said, threw a knife at Toomey, cutting him in the arm. Toomey, leaving the room, procured a rifle and fired it at McCurdy through the window, the bullet striking McCurdy in the thigh. Toomey was arrested on a charge of discharging firearms with intent to do grievous bodily barm.
McCurdy walked to the hospital, where he was attended to. Though wounded on the thigh it is not thought probable that the bullet lodged in bis leg.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3070, 15 December 1908, Page 5
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147A DUNEDIN INCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3070, 15 December 1908, Page 5
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