SERIOUS CHARGES.

Wairarapa Age, 16 February 1927, Page 5

SERIOUS CHARGES.

OUTCOME OF BACK COUNTRY. AFFRAY. LENGTHY HEARING. NEW PLYMOUTH, February 15. Indicted on three serious charges, one of attempted murder of Janies Farrelly, near Tangarakau, on November 14, 1926, and in addition, alternatively, with shooting Farrelly so as to cause actual bodily harm, and wit*causing him actual bodily harm under circumstances which, if the death of Farrelly had resulted, would have rendered the accused guilty of manslaughter, Stanley Emerson Carlyle Taylor, a farmer or Taugarakau, came up for trial before Mr. Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court to-day. The Grand Jury returned “on bill” on the first two counts and a true bill on the third count. The ease arose out of an incident near Taylor’s house in hilly 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 and the affair ended when Taylor borrowed a double-barrel shot gun from a neighbour and FarTclly received the full charge in his face. Taylor’s defence is that he had to arm himself with a gun in self defence and when he was endeavouring to take Farrelly in-charge in order to hand him over to the policej the gun accidentally went off. The hearing of the third charge occupied • th© Court all day, an adjournment being taken after the conclusion of evidence for the defence.—(P.A.).