SHOOTING AFFRAY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18927, 16 February 1927, Page 12

SHOOTING AFFRAY.

TARANAKI FARMER ON TRIAL. (raias Auocunoi tsuaiiK.) NEW PLYMOUTH February 16. Indicted on three serioua charges, ono of attempted murdor of James Farrelfy, near llangarakau,. on November 14tU, 1928, iuid, m addition} alternatively with shooting Farrelly so as to cause actual bodily harm, and with causing him actual bodily harm under circumstances which, if the. death of Farrelly had resulted, would have rendered accused guilty of manslaughter, Stanley Emerson Carlylo Taylor, farmer, of Taukarakau, came up for trial before 31 r Justice Ostlor in the Supremo Court to-day. The Orand Jury, returned "no bill" on the first two counts, and a true bill on tho third count. The case arose out of an incident near Taylor's house in tho hill country beyond Tahora. Farrelly, who, it is alleged, had made himself a nuisance in the district by his strange and threatening conduct, called on Taylor one morning and demanded breakfast. An argument followed, and Farrelly was shot in tbe face, the weapon being a double-barrelled shotgun. Taylor's defence is that he had to arm himself with the gun in self-de-fence, and when ho was endeavouring to take Farrelly in charge in order to hand him over to the police, tho gun accidentally went off. The hearing of tbe third charge occupied tho Court all day, tho adjournment being token after tho conclusion of the evidence for the defence.