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COLERIDGE TRAGEDY.

CHRISTCHURCH, September 12. In the Magistrate’s Court, Alfred James Stanley Colenso, agted 32, was charged with murdering Robin John Cockburn at Lake Coleridge on September 3, and was remanded till September 20.

Coekburn, a farm labourer, aged 23, was found dead on a road fully dressed, with a bullet wound in his chest. He had previously been working a tractor, when Ronald Stewart, who was driving a truck, carting shingle, came along. Cockburn and Stewart talked for a time, and while they were so engaged, two swaggers walked past. One was middleaged, and the other was much younger. One carried a gun. Cockburn left Stewart and went a short distance along the road to collect his billy of tea, sugar, and lunch, which had been left on the side of the road 3own which the two unknown swaggers had passed. He found that. his lunch had been stolen. Stewart, apparently called by Cockburn, went towards him and both started off down the road after the two strangers, who were overtaken and taxed with having taken Cockburn’s lunch. Stewart left Cockburn in conversation with the two men, and did not see him alive again.

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Otago Witness, Issue 3992, 16 September 1930, Page 60

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COLERIDGE TRAGEDY. Otago Witness, Issue 3992, 16 September 1930, Page 60

COLERIDGE TRAGEDY. Otago Witness, Issue 3992, 16 September 1930, Page 60

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