TARADALE SHOOTING CASE
A TRAGEDY AVERTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. Alexander Straehan, a man of about 40 years of age, who fired a revolver at Herbert Sidney Bradley at Taradale last Wednesday, the bullet lodging in Bradley's lunch bag, appeared before the .Magistrate's Court to-day. Evidence showed that Straehan had been drinking for two days before, and had talked of shooting his wife, and then committing suicide. He had been heard to say that there would be the biggest tragedy that ever happened at Taradale. Straehan had a quarrel with Bradley a year ago, but it was not of a serious nature. He purchased the revolver and 50 cartridges on Tuesday, ostensibly for pig-shooting. There was no sign of liquor on him on Wednesday. He wag a hardworking, respectable man when sober, but was a prohibited person, and had been imprisoned for a breach of his order. He was committed for trial, the Magistrate refusing bail on the ground that the evidence tended to show mental degeneration. I
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 221, 24 January 1911, Page 5
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170TARADALE SHOOTING CASE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 221, 24 January 1911, Page 5
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