AN OHUTU SENSATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9378, 23 February 1909, Page 5

AN OHUTU SENSATION.

Per Press Association. Taihape, February 23.

There was a sensation at Ohutu

last night. It is alleged that two } men, Garliok, a labourer of 35, and } Ohatfiled, a married man, rode to Taihape yesterday, and returning 1 late in the afternoon they evidently ( quarrelled and got off their horses, Uhatfield being thrown over the bank. Had he reahced the river death would have been certain, but fortunately ho landed n n the verge of the cliff, and was found subsequently in adazed condition. The other, it ia alleged, rode off leading the other horse, and made for Ohatfleld’s house, where seizing a carving knife he threatened to do for thereat of the family. Fortunately a man named Oliver was present, and after a desperate straggle, he secured the knife. Garliok, it is stated, then whipped out a jack knife and renewed the fray, only to be again disarmed, and then Garlick jumped into a two-horse dray and drove to his lodgings, secu-ed a loaded gun, returned and threatened to shoot anyone who interfered with him. He tried to induce some spectators to go with him to show where Ohatfiela was, but they declined. He then asked for Mrs Ohatfield, and on being told she was gone, said “I’ll gd too.” Then the gun went off, and Garliok fell out of the cart wounded in the left arm, chest and shoulder. The peilce and a doctor were summoned, and his injuries attended to this morning, and he was conveyed to Wanganui Hospital.