TE AWAITE MURDER.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11876, 25 April 1904, Page 9

TE AWAITE MURDER.

•m •ARREST OF THE SUSPECT. (r_—_ ASSOCIATION' TELEGRAM.) ■ NEW PLYMOUTH, April 24. /The man Ellis, who -was wanted in conpection with the Te Awaite tragedy, was -arrested at Urenui on Saturday by the Waiter- police, ' A man named Len Collinson was shot on Mr Riddiford's station at Te Awaite, ' ttear Martinborough, on February 26th. He Was with a mate, named Alfred W__om Ross, and was measuring up some bush which they had'felled, when the tragedy occurred. It was near dusk, and Ross „ had left hie companion to cut a sapling, % when he heard a report as of a shot from ■>ti n gun. (Looking round he saw Collinson V lying dead. Dick Effis, alias Jimmy Mc- '-"■.: Kenzie, was suspected, and a warrant was . . pasted tor iris arrest. [._»,_• Ellis lived a nomadic life in the wild Wsbuk country near the scene of the Hp-rder. He was between thirty-five and vfcrty years of age, and is - said Wo-- he • eccentric, Collinson was a SKetttttance man of thirty years of imge, end was stated to have been at one fjathne secretary to Sir William Yemon HarHe came to the colony about four Igp'eaj* ego. His father is a well-known gpfcicitor in London, and he has a brother in s||Ebriat<_urch. \ Ellis had been dismissed from several ||Patkt_>, «nd i» known to have threatened Urn* **** ** Mr BtumT * ***** manager of Mr j|^||jUda_oTd'■ station, and also the deceased others. It is supposed that he was ■$MfrMt*i «h of Bunny when he met tJeceased. Bunny had gone out to show some a fellinrr contract; JETe was met S^*» «~tion hand and returned by another W«|o_te. crtherwfre he might have met the ss3pj_»» fate as Collinson.