ALMOST A TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 77, 20 August 1914, Page 8

ALMOST A TRAGEDY.

ARISING OUT ~; ;i COURTSHIP. ; SUITOR Sliui' BV NIGHT. By Telegraph.—-Press Association. Inverts rgill, Last Night A young man, David CoMy, rwidont at Heddon Hush, was [admitted to the Ssospitai yesterday -uiTering irom a wound in one of his hands, caused by a riflo The cireumstaiKOS under which the wound was inflicted are sensational. He is said to have been cour l "- iiiio' the daughter of a neighboring, farmer, but affairs wore not viewed AV'kh favor by the parent of the girl. Their interchange o* love messages was chief! v b" letters left by Cody in a secret repository near the girl's hrfme. Th-; o:fter night Cody madu his way to the depository. When a few yard? from tlie spot ho vi.-.'hed to reach, be ,■ was challenged by someone hidden by ,th>s darkness. 11-? took no notice, and a mowent afterwards he heard the click of what he too!: ro be a rifle. He continued on his way, and fcid.-jone som? little distance when a report rang out. and ho was struck bv a bullet. It m understood rhoit the IwJlet struck the main bone in (nis hand, and that it was only removed with considerable difficulty. _ Another vminsr man, brother of the girl wit'ii whom Cody waa comsjionding, has been arrested.