SHOOTING INCIDENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19768, 16 February 1927, Page 7

SHOOTING INCIDENT

THE TANGARAKAU AFFAIR TAYLOR STANDS HIS TRIAL. [ Per Press Association. ] NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 15. Indicted on three charges—one of the attempted murder of James Farrelly near Tangarakau on November 14, and in addition, alternatively, with shooting Farrelly so as to cause actual bodily harm, and with causing him actual bodily harm under eirc.nmsianc.es which, if the death of Farrelly had resulted, would have rendered accused guilty of manslaughter—Stanley Emerson Carlyle Taylor, a farmer of Tangarakau, came up for trial before Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court to-day. The Grand 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 the 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 the affair ended when Taylor borrowed a double-bar-relled shotgun from a neighbour and Farrelly received a full charge in the face. Taylor’s defence' is that he had to arm himself with a gun in self-defence, and when he was endeavouring to take Farrelly in charge in order to hand him over to the police, the gun accidentally went off. The hearing of the charge occupied the Court all day, an adjournment being taken after the conclusion of the evidence for the defence.