SHOCKING MURDER.
A SHEPHERD SHOT.
THE BODY BURNED.
ARREST OF THE MURDERER.
(by telegraph.—press association.)
Gisborne, Monday.
News has reached here of a horrible murder committed on the Mahia Peninsula. A shepherd named Robert Gollan, on the run of Mr G. Ormond, has been murdered by a half-caste named McQuarrie. Gollan's remains were found amongst the ruins of his whare, which had been destroyed, at Table Cape, on the night of the murder. McQuarrie left his home, and his young brother-in-law, being frightened of being left ab home in the dark, followed a short distance behind McQuarrie. He was heard to lire three shots, and the appearance of the ground round Gollan's whare showed that his bleeding body had been dragged into the whare, which had been burned. The motive assigned is jealousy. McQuarrie had often expressed himself in jealous terms of Gollan on account of a Maori woman with whom he was living, and of whom McQuarrie was deeply enamoured. The other day he offered a Maori £10 if he would bring the woman to him. The police are ab Mahia, and McQuarrie has been arresbed.
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 95, 23 April 1889, Page 5
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