"ONLY A BIT OF FUN."

Evening Star, Issue 14631, 29 July 1911, Page 2

"ONLY A BIT OF FUN."

j man mimed William M‘Cloud. a I ri'>n j «t. i in; (ViHoe Palace, in Willis , sitvi’l, -aiimd fiomtiamc of a sensation ! <m Tuesday even ini' (says the Wellington • '>. by indulging in revolver practice in his bedroom. A request from the ptopn- of the establishment to desist was , tre.-.t, d v. ii.ii (-cn;U:jTi,pt, and the aid of a c'iiisti>!c w,is requisitioned, with the result 1 '•) ;l ,M"('loi’.'l V,-;:;; charytyl at the Ma.iri.str..;u's (Yurt. before Mr W. <J. Hkl-dcil, with ki mg wilfully damaged : door lo k. valued at 20s, the property of iionry lli-own. 'J ijf evidence given hy Mr Brow a v-as to iii“ effi-i 'that at about 11 o’clock or Tpi-.-l'tv night he heard shots in one ol lie- rooms, and on making juvvsijgaiicms found M Cloud shooting at a tin with a heavy revolver. On being remonstrated M •(. i-'.cd promised to desist, but as fscici as Mr .Brown’s back was turn'd dints v ere fined, a Yale lock on the dour heinc the target. The lock was smashed lo atoms, ant! several of the bullets went < ;can through the door. Constable !\ audit-on deposed to arresting a.--cured. who said that ho was locked in, and could find no other way of getting on;. M‘Cloud had three revolvers in his po.-scssion w hen arrested. \ ivnrdor at the Coffee Palace alto gave evidence. Ho stated that M‘Cloud v..c only having a bit of fun, firing at a radish livid in the hand of another jK-rmn. ‘loud, who hail recently been giving exhibitions of sharpshooting at the Ftadium at the Exhibition, saw! a man bet him a fiver that he «>uk] not hit a tin on the door. He accepted the challenge, and found the target with his first shot. H< also admitted firing at the door, but meant no harm ; it was only a bi£ of fun, and he was only trying a shot or two. A fine of 20s. with the witnesses’ expanses, war imposed, and M‘Cloud was also ordered to pay t£r chst of the damage' to the 10-kt