A QUARREL AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXiX, Issue 7730, 25 February 1909, Page 4

A QUARREL AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.

TAIHAPE, February 23. There was quite a sensation at Ohutu last night. It appears that two mon, named Garlick, a labourer, twenty-five years of age, and Chatfield, a married man, rode to Taihape yesterday, returning late m the afternoon. They evidently quarrelled, and got off their boi^ses, Chatfield being thrown over the bank. Had he reached the river death was certain; but fortunately he landed on the verge of a cliff, and was found subsequently m a dazed condition. His assailant, probably assuming that his companion was disposed of, rod© off, leading the other horse, and made for Ohatfield's house, where, seizing a carving knife, he threatened to "do for " the rest of the family. Forjtunately, a man named Oliver was present, and, after a desperate struggle, he secured the knife. Garlick then whipped crat a jack knife and renewed the fray. He was again disarmed, and then Garlick jumped into a two-horso dray and drove to his lodgings, where he secured a loaded gun, and, returning, threatened to shoot anyone who interfered with him. He tried to induce some of the spectators to go with him, and he would show them where Chatfield was. They declined, and he then asked for Mrs Chatfield. Being told she had gone, he said, " I'll go too." Then the gun went off, and Garlick fell out of the cart, wounded m the left arm, ('host and shoulder. The police and a doctor wero summoned, and the injuries were attended to. This morning the man was conveyed to the "Wanganui Hosoi-