THE POKENO SHOOTING CASE. Committal of the Prisoner.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1619, 18 November 1882, Page 2

THE POKENO SHOOTING CASE. Committal of the Prisoner.

[BY TELEGRAPH.— OWN COKKES>rONDENT.] , AnncTiAXD, Last Night. At the Oit} tollcfe Court t6-tlay,i before the Resident Magistrate, Albert Edward Long, on remand; was again brought up on a charge 'of" attempting to kill his father, Richard Dixon Long, at Pokeno, alsq with attempting self- destruction. Richard Dixon Long, sworn, deposed that he was of no occupation at present. On the 25th,] he and accused were, practising on th6 r slope of his land with* revolvers. They returned, at six o'clock in the evening, and cleaned the revolver.. His son was present, and placed it in a drawer' M m ' ! tliV b'edrobW It was not reloaded. The room was occupied by himself 1 and son. The am, munition was placed.with the revolver (six chambered). ' He went to bed' at lO p,m*, but his son retired before him. He was suddenly awakened in the morning; he did not exactly krtbw the! time', by the report of a pistol. There was a sudden flash, and he was struck behind the right ear. He called and jumped out of bed, and saw his son about three feet from the bed. He could not say •wHejjhei; hfy sjm.ijjfclljjne revolver in his^hajld^ujbjb^ljev^d le^hacl not. There was-na other -persoii«Sliv«the reioqu • aras> °f me knocking at his d_oprjraiuf he>p|,shed back the catch. He waaiiot-4i>\ja.rofh& had been injured until he put his hand'fo 1 his head, and fou.id he was covered with blood. Remember saying to ' Adams " My 'son lias shot me." Adams bandaged his wound and assisted him into bed. John Adams, on whose farm the tragedy-occurred, deposed that .he, heard a peculiar 'noise about half -past 4. He was dozing at the time, but immediately got out of bed and was's'atisfied'the noise proceeded from Long's room. He insistfed upon th'o db'orJbeing 'opened riintiiediatcly. Loug.opened-.it^aiursaid, "My boy shot inc. ' J Blood was flowing^ from his head. The prisoner was standing by the bedside in his night-shirt. No other peuson waa.in .the $oom. ,He banrjaged the wound with a bandage procured JErom his own room. While attending upon Lon«, his son left the room, and very shortly after he heard the report of a -pistol' in ' the kitchen. -Ran to ! the kitchen and discovered that the accused had siiot himself in-thc neck, and the revolver was lying at his side. Accused wa's'Vjtute sensißle/bnd' said/ "I difl^ not kill my father, and so I intended to kill myself." Blood was issuing from his uecli. , He' sttutnehed 'the wound, and immediately sent for a doctor. Dr. Dalziel deposed, he found .accused lying upon a matrass in the kitchen. He examined the accused and found he was suffering iromi£ gullet wound in*' the neck. 1 Visitecl -the' father and found a wound by his right ear : another a little behind. The bullet lodged on the left ,side of the neck, j n Sent for .chloroform, and c*ti>acted.the,buHet. ,|t mu?t have striVck tlie'* right' ear^and travelled to within two inches of the left ear, striking tlis'bp£<f pf tj»efhe}id slantj^doYi^yards and backwards to the back of the neck. The prisoner/who Had 'nothing to say, was fully crmmitted for trial.