SINGULAR SHOOTING AFFAIR.
A WOMAN WOUNDED
ASSAILANT A MARR T ED WOMAN. .
SUPPOSED TO BE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ABERRATION.
By Telegraph—Press Association
INVERCARGILL, Dec. 15. A singular shooting affair occurred last night.
A motoring party were leaving a residence, when a married woman named Mrs Buchanan appeared and fired six shots from a revolver, wounding one of the occupants of the car (Miss McKay) in the arm. The assailant, who has been caretaker of the house duri.jg the owner's absence in England, is supposed to be suffering from mental aberration.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. ; INVERCARGILL, Dec. 15. Maud Buchanan was arrested tonight on a charge of having attempted to murder Vera McKay. Mrs Buchanan was charged before a Justice of the Peace and remanded. Baii was not applied for. The police enquiries so far have thrown no new light on the shooting. It seems clear that Mrs Buchanan has entertained 'a grudge against Miss McKay, but just what nature that grudge was is not definitely known. Mrs Buchanan and Miss McKay had been on friendly terms up to some months ago. Mr and Mrs Buchj anan looked after McKay's house during the latter's trip to America a year or two ago, and continued to live with the McKay family for five months after their return home. Since then some estrangement has occurred, and the relations have been | strained.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3071, 16 December 1908, Page 5
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226SINGULAR SHOOTING AFFAIR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3071, 16 December 1908, Page 5
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