UNCOUTH JOKE

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1719, 9 April 1913, Page 7

UNCOUTH JOKE

THOUGHTLESS ACT BY TWO HEN. (By !felfgraph—S»ocial Corrcflpondect.; ' Wang;;nui, April 8. What was considered to', ba « joke, but whicjuhqd all tho elements of a tragedy, occurred fit Waverley, and, nccoi-diny to all; accounts, more/is: to b» lieard of the ' matter; which at the time eruitcd a c-on- ■ siderablo sensation iu the quiet little . township. : . ' . 'It ,app t 'iar9 that two. young farmers returned homo with the: preconceived idea of creating;a, scare, It was arranged that on,'arrival. at tho 'house.- a' make-believe quarrel ' two should . tnka place iu the vicinity of the room occupied by a farm' employee.' Using blank cartridge, one was-to fire'at t'hs other, and, after a'few. "dying exclamations" on the • part 'of the alleged victim, a second shot was to be fired and the "murder" completed.- ' ;The act was carried' out in its en- ■' tirety,, but .tho effect was not quite what tho actors desired.: : The'farm employee naturally thought that a man had .been done/; to. death, and,'rushing from his room, made into Waverley post haste, and ,reported < the ■ ocqurrencoto Constable O'Brictn. •> The agitated ..and . exhausted condition of the man left.no doubt in the i mind of the constable thai; his tale was a tru© one, and he immediately, communioated with Dr., Harvey. ' ■ Together they proceeded' in a doctor's 'ihibulance i posed murdei\\'When''they''gdt there a search was made for the body of-the victim and the alleged murderer, but they ' Searching :. certainrsleepiuyrooms'/in l tho'l6use, tho , constable: found the two young men who had perpetrated tho "joke" sleapin? soundly/in,bed, He elicited from them that they only desired to scare the, farm • employee above referred to, but they had done, it much more thoroughly than they :