SHOT MAN IN FACE.

Grey River Argus, 16 February 1927, Page 5

SHOT MAN IN FACE.

TAYLOR’S TRIAL. Two Counts Thrown Out. NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 15. Stanley Emerson Carlyle Taylor was to-day indicted here on three serious charges, one being that of the attempted murder of James Farrelly, near Tangaragau, on November 14, 1926; and in addition, alternatively, charged with shooting Farrelly so as to cause actual bodily harm, and with causing him actual bodily harm, under circumstances which, if the death of Farrelly had resulted, would have rendered the accused guilty of manslaughter. Taylor is a farmer of Tangarakau, and- came up’ for trial before Mr Justice Ostler, in the Supreme Court. The Grand Jury returned “No Bill” on the first two counts. A true bill was found only on the third count. The case arose out of the 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. The affair ended when Taylor borrowed a double-barrel-led shotgun; from the neighbourhood; and Farrelly received the full charge in liis face.

Taylor’s defence is that he had to arm himself with the gun in self de fence, and that when he was endeavouring to take Farrelly in charge, in order to hand him over to the police, his gun accidentally went off. The hearing, of the third charge occupied the Court all day, an adjournment being taken after the conclusion of the evidence for the defence.