COLERIDGE TRAGEDY

Grey River Argus, 6 September 1930, Page 5

COLERIDGE TRAGEDY

MURDER CHARGE I Against Colenso (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH.. September 5. Before Magistrate Mosley, this morning, Alfred Jamecs l Stanley Colenso, 32, was charged that at Lake Coleralge on September 3, he muiderc l Richard John Cockburn. Arthur Edward Ferguhar on, 57. iWas d’narged that on September L at Cass, he was idle and disorderly. Both were described as farm labourers with no fixed abode. Both were remanded to September, 112, on the application of the police. I There was a large cijowd at the Courthouse. Colon on was the first to be ushered from the van. He steppe • down, holding his head high. He was collarlesg but clean-shavc'n. H,is coat and tHousers were creased, as though they had been slept in. He was closely accompanied tu the cells by two constables.

Farquaharson. an old looking man ’’with bowed head, walked in Colcnso’s

irear to the cells. His age was given 'on the charge nheet as fifly-sc'vcn. but this morning he would have passed as ten years older. He also was j collarle [s, and his tousle-I .hair’ and I drooping moustache gave him an unI kempt appearance. j Cockburn, whose age was 23, was • employed as a trae-tor driver by Mr John Murchison, and was engaged in I ploughing. He was single, and resided originally i n the Oxford district, where his father. Mr Allen Cockburi), owned a black niith’s shop. A sist°r ’of the dead man resides with her husband on Mr Hall’s homestead nean ’Lake Coleridge.