DRUNKEN BRAVADO

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 13

DRUNKEN BRAVADO

Murder Threatened

EMPTY GUN CARRIED “Bloke Pinched My Girl” By Telegraph.—Press Association. Waipukurau, December 8. An incident of a sensational nature occurred at Waipukurau on Saturday afternoon when Delpha Charles Taylor, aged 25, a labourer, of Brooklyn, Wellington, stepped off the mail train and asked to be driven to Wallingford, 17 miles away, saying, “There’s murder will be done! I want to be taken there d quick. A bloke pinched my girl, and I’m going to murder them both.” The taxi-driver refused to take him. The man next bailed up' two local citizens outside the post office and repeated the demand, at the same time brandishing a revolver. Eventually Taylor commenced his journey in a service car, but was intercepted by the police, who arrested him. On examination he was found to have a revolver, but it was loaded with silver paper only. Charged in the court this morning, Taylor pleaded guilty to charges of carrying firearms and of presenting a firearm at" a citizen, making drunkenness his excuse.

Taylor was sentenced to 28 days’ imprisonment on the first charge and was fined £5 on the second. The accused maintained that he had no intention of shooting anyone.