GIRL'S BRAVERY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 174, 24 June 1926, Page 11

GIRL'S BRAVERY.

WRESTLE WITH GUNMAN.

REMARKABLE STORY,

MELBOURNE, June 12. A remarkable story of a girl wrestling with a gunman was related in Bendigo Supreme Court to-day. Though one shot had been exploded, the girl continued to hang to the barrel of the rifle until she was dragged from her scat in a motor car and tossed to tho ground. Peter Paul Prunty was found guilty of having shot at Alfred George Giles at Charlton, on April 22, with intent to inflict grievous bodily ham. He was remanded for sentence. Amy Gladys Giles, daughter of a farmer at Chaidton, said that a car in which she and her two brothers were motoring to Charlton at night punctured. When they were trying to repair it Prunty arrived, and she heard her brother Alf cry out, “Don’t shoot!” Her brothers scrambled into the car. and she jumped into the back seat. Prunty, with his finger on tho trigger, pointed tho rifle straight at Alf. PULLED OUT OF CAR. “I grabbed tho barrel,” she said, “and pushed it aside. Just then tho riflo discharged. I kept hold of tho barrel with my two hands. Prunty tried to drag it away, and eventually pulled me out of the car. To balance myself on tho ground I let go with one hand, and ho then got the rifle. I ran to the back of the car and heard a shot fired. I then went to a house some distance away.” t Alfred George Giles said that Prunty came up to them and said, “I am sorry to say you all have to die.” On' oath Prunty denied having fired the shot. Ho was looking to see if there were sufficient ’possums in tho district to warrant tho cost 'of a license.