American Misses Pussy But Nearly Hits Coolie Surber pleaded guilty at the U. 8, Court on Saturday to" charge of disorderly conduct.
Chief-Inspr. O'Toole informed the Court that the action of defendant might have been attended with serious results. It appeared that a coolie was sleeping in a garage in the house next to defendant's in Boone Road between three and four o'clock in the morning of the 7th instant when he was awakened by the sound of a shot. Nothing further happened until he got up in the morning, when he found that a bullet had missed him by only a few inches. After going through the corrugated iron root of the garage, it had passed through the bedding and mat in which the coolie was asleep and sr found underneath the Det.-Sub-Inspr. Yorke was detailed to make inquiries and defendant said that cats continually disturbed him at night when he was asleep. These cats always perch-themselves on the top of the Yoof of the garage and sang right through the night. The police did not desire to press the charge a would be quite satisfied if defendant was reprimanded, J. Schuhl" (defending) suid that defendant had for some time past been kept awake late at night and into the early hours of the morning by the mewing of cats, Instead of disorderly conduct a turbing the peace, he was quite crdarly and had in fact helped the neighbours to keep the peace. He never knew that a coolie was sleeping in the garage or he would ever have fired. The eats continually made a noise so he thought that in order to stop it he would pot one of them off so that the others would run away as he fired the shot. Fortunately, the bullet did not strike the coolie otherwise the circumstances would then have deen entirely different. He missed the cat, but they had left the neighbourhood and now there were no ore after the shot was fired. His client would plead guilty and he (Mir, Schuhl) would suggest that a reprimand would be sufficient. There were extenuating circumstances and he (counsel) had often himself been disturbed at nights by He had often thought of ig at them himself. When Det-Sub-Inspr. Yorke visited him the next day, defendant was perfectly frank about the matter and did not attempt to hide anything. He admitted that he fired the shot but it was intended for the cat. The police did not wish to proso the charge so counsel would ask for] a reprimand.
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