BEDROOM DRAMA

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 91, 13 July 1928, Page 8

BEDROOM DRAMA

GIFifL. C!ETS SCAfii. MAN WITH A SHOT GUN. SYDNEY, June 29. A story of a ; man with, a shot-gun hiding in a girl's bedroom., was rekited at the Manly Court- to-uay-Leslie Eugene Gosper, aged 3d, a poultry-farmer, was committed for trial on a charge of having,, at Warriewood, on June 12, attempted to discharged a double-barrelled, breech loading gun at' Alma Grace Forbes-Smith, with intent to do bodily harm. BViil (in £100), was allowed, with two sureties of £SO each, or one in £IOO. Alma Grace Forties-Smith stated that she had known Gosper for some time. Six months ago he proposed: marriage to her, but she refused him* On Saturday, June 9, she informed him that she wanted to have nothing further to do with him, ai.. .iiiifc she would 1 go to the country if he) persisted in annoying her. "He said to me," witness continued, " '1 will blow your brains out, and my own, too.' Later, he visited a house in Brookvale where I w?>s (staying, and abused me. He said that he would make Warriewood too hot to hold me. "LOOK DOWN BARREL/" J i*Qn June 12, about 7 p.m., I \tfas reading a paper when I heard a noise from the front of the house. I investigated, and on returning saw Gosper behind the bedroom idoor With a gun. I called to my father. 'Here is Les in my,room with a gun.' 1 ran into the sitting room, followed by defendant, who pointed the gun at me, so that i" looked right down its barrel. Just then father rushed in, and coming up behind him, dragged the gun a\\(iy. The weapon was cocked and fully loaded." , Constable Huckins said that he went to the house in Warriewood, and arrested Gosper- When searched he was found to have a razor and a bottle of strychnine in his pocket. Gosper told the court that toe' had borrowed the gun, and had intended shooting oats with it, 'not hunXftn beings. "I walked down past Smith's place," he said, "and' saw Alma Smith in her bedroom with the door open. I took off my shoe s and walked in just to frighten her. T was taking the razor to the barber's to Wave it sharpened. The poison I put in my pocket to take over to! a| Mr. Dunn's place to poison rate with it."