Dartmouth Senior Answers Shooting Charge Tomorrow

Raymond Devee, 20-year-old Dartmouth senior accused of firing four shots into a professor's house Saturday night, was released on his own recognizance yesterday by a Hanover, New Hampshire, municipal judge.

Devee, whose home is at 876 Park Avenue, New York, will appear in court tomorrow to answer charges of disorderly conduct and firing a rifle without a permit. The case was continued from yesterday morning.

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Hanover police chief Andrew J. Ferguson said he believed there was no malice or premeditation involved, but that Devee was guilty of poor judgment in firing a .23 caliber telescope equipped target rifle at beer cans floating is the Connecticut River.

The telescopic nights did not help much, for four bullets hit Professor Allen R. Foley's house across the river in Norwich, Vermont.

Foley had been sitting in a living room chair in front of a window, until he decided to get up and go to the kitchen. No sooner had he reached it than one shot came through the window and hit the wall behind the chair in a direct line with the spot that Foley's head had previously occupied.

Another shot hit the wall where the professor's shoulder had been. A third embedded itself in the window casing, and a fourth hit the side of the house.

The second student, who is alleged to have been merely a spectator at the target practice, is not being charged.

Devee has not yet entered a plan.