The Thames Sensation.
• Thames, August 28. Farther details of the arrest of Myra Taylor show that she took pas sage from Paeroa to Auckland by boat. The police only arrived four minu tes before the boat sailed, and found her in the smoking room. At first she denied her identity, and then equivocated. When she saw arrest was inevitable she took a bottle of laudanum, three parts full, out of her pocket, but was secured. A revolver was found under a cush ion in the smoking room, and she had £l6 in her possession. She still wears male costume in the cells, having no women’s clothes with her. She said she had nothing to eat for three days. The woman appears to be in a state of high nervous tension. Myra Taylor was before the Court this morning. She appeared in fe male dress, with her hair cropped short. Accused was remanded till September 6 th» No bail was fixed, and none was asked for. Myra Taylor, when charged with attempted murder, denied that she meant to shoot Whelan, but pulled a revolver out to frighten him. He caught her hand, and pulled the trigger. She explained her possession of laudanum by a statement that she was suffering froin insomnia, and had been in a very nervous state. Her present condition proves the latter statement.
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