FIRING OF SHOT
POLICE AND RESIDENT ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE ELDERLY MAN INVOLVED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Wednesday Following 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, aged 72, pensioner, 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 it was desired to make further inquiries and obtained a remand to November 27. “Thank you,” said Morrison on leaving the do#k. The police visit followed an attempt by two constables to serve a summons on an elderly man. charging him with a breach of the impressment of rifles regulations. The police state that they were threatened with a shotgun, whereupon the constables obtained the assistance of Sergeant Wilson and other police. When the party reached the house a shot was fired which missed Sergeant Wilson.
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Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21582, 19 November 1941, Page 6
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188FIRING OF SHOT Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21582, 19 November 1941, Page 6
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