ALLEGED MURDER
ACCUSED REMANDED [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 12. In tho Magistrates Court. Allien James Stanley Colenso, aged thirtytwo, was charged with murdciing Robin John Cock burn at Labe Coleridge on September 3, and was remanded till September 20. [Cocburn, a farm labourer, aged twenty-three, was found dead on a road fully dressed, with a bullet wound in his chest. Ho had previously been working a tractor, when Ronald Stewart, who was driving a truck, cat ting shingle, came along. Cockburn ami Stewart talked for a tunc, and while they were so engaged, two swaggers walked past. One was middle-aged, and the other was much younger. One carried a. gun. Cockburn Jeft Stewart rand 'won£ a short distance along the road to collect his billy of tea, sugar,and Tiirich, which had been left on the side of the road down which the two unknown swaggers had passed. He found that his lunch had been stolen. Stewart, apparently called by Cockburn, went towards linn, and both started off down tho road after the two strangers, who were overtaken and taxed with having taken Cockburn s lunch. Stewart .left Cockburn in conversauon with tho two men, and did not see him alive again.]
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Evening Star, Issue 20587, 12 September 1930, Page 12
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203ALLEGED MURDER Evening Star, Issue 20587, 12 September 1930, Page 12
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