WEAPONS USED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1940, Page 6

WEAPONS USED

TWO MEN WOUNDED AT MEETING SENSATIONAL EPISODE IN OAMARU. ARREST MADE BY POLICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, October 13. There was a sensational interruption at a meeting of the Jehovah’s Witnesses held in the Oddfellows Hall. Oamaru. tonight, as a result of which two men were wounded, one by a bayonet. and the other by a rifle bullet. The injured men are:— Mr George Robert Edwards, Timaru; bayonet wound in the hand. Mr Harry Frederick McAuley, Timaru; bullet wound in the right thigh. He lost a great deal of blood before first aid was applied, and is on the dangerously ill list in hospital. William Meehan, 24 Usk Street, Oamaru, a married man with five children, and a Power Board employee, was arrested. The chairman of the meeting was Mr Irvine Stuart Keltie, Wellington, who was accompanied by about 10 of Jehovah’s Witnesses from Dunedin and Timaru. He said he was reproducing an electric transcription of an address by Judge Rutherford which, when first delivered in flew York, caused a riot by 500 of the followers of Father Coughlan, the radio priest. Two men, Mr Keltie said, were seated in a car outside the hall, and the ushers invited them in. The car was driven away, and a few minutes later a man came to the door. Mr Keltie alleged, that the man told the usher to get out of the way or he would be shot, and the usher in the course of a scruffle received a bayonet wound in the hand. Hearing the noise of the scuffle, Mr McAuley opened the inner door of the hall, and Mr Keltie said a shot was fired.