ALLEGED MOONLIGHTING OUTRAGE IN LONDON.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2412, 24 December 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

ALLEGED MOONLIGHTING OUTRAGE IN LONDON.

An cxfaordiuay outrage has just come to light in St. I’aucras in the nature of an attempt to murder a man named Henry Walker, of respectable connection, who inis for 20 years been employed hy the St. I’ancras parish as sewe.-nun, and has taken an active part latterly in political matters as a- member of the East St L’ancras Conservative Asnocalioii. Dining tho past two years, Mr. Walker has delivered open-air addresses as an English Orangeman, He. resides in an isolated cottage situated in the disused burial ground of St. George the Martyr, Brunswick squat”. According to Mr. Walker’s statement he went on Monday on an excursion to Elsti'ee, and returned about midnight. Ten minutes afterwards he ho ml the report of a pistol outside the window, and before lie had recovered from tim alarm, he heard a second shot, and saw a flash through the blind. He had been sitting near the window when the first shot was fired, and immediately jumped up. Alter the second shot Mr Walker with his son went upstairs and looked out, tint could sec nobody, in fho morning he spoke to Mr Ans-’ll, n neighbour who said ho beard tiie shots. They examined the front of th” house and found bullet marks, one bullet embedded in the wall under the window-sill. Mr. Walker informed the police at Hunter-street station, and lias siiu:e hadpoliee protection. He notice a cub standing under an archway near the house on returning home on Monday night, and the police believe the perpetrators made their escape in the vehicle. Suud iv evening Mr Walker deUvercrd an out-door address on the Irish question and some of Ids opponents were noisy and threatening.