SHOT FIRED
PENSIONER ARRESTED IN AUCKLAND CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER. POLICE OBTAIN REMAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Following on a visit by several members of the Police Force to a house in Grey Terrace, off Grey’s Avenue, last evening, when a shot was fired and an elderly man was overpowered and handcuffed, James Maxwell Morrison, a pensioner aged 72, was charged in the Police Court today with assaulting Constable Edwards in the execution of his duty and with attempting to murder Sergeant L. E. G. Wilson. Morrison, a man of good physique, was accompanied in the dock by a constable.. The police Stated that they desired to make further inquiries and obtained a remand to November 27.
“Thank you,” said Morrison, in leaving the dock. . .
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1941, Page 6
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