CONSTABLE MURDERED.
A DRUNKARD'S VENGEANCE. TBAGEDY NEAR ADELAIDE. (Keceived 10.15 a.m.) ADELAIDE, this day. Constable King was shot dead at Glenelg on Saturday by a Esherman named Coleman. King had arrested Coleman on Saturday for being drunk and disorderly, and he was fined 5/. Colen-.an evidently regarded his arrest as a grievous insult, and intimated his intention of "doing for" King. He met the constable at midnight on Saturday and fired point blank with a gun at King's breast killing him instantly. Coleman is still at large.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 77, 30 March 1908, Page 5
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