EARL’S SON DEPORTED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 70, 6 November 1911, Page 7

EARL’S SON DEPORTED.

The special correspondent of the “African World” Nairobi cabled on Friday September 8, that the Hon. Galbrarth Cole is being deported from the colony’ on the orders of the Governor upon instructions received from the Colonial Office, for alleged stirring up of strife amongst the natives. The development is the outcome occording to the correspondent, of the murder case recently referred to in the House of Commons. It has caused immense local sensation.

Mr. Cole is thirty, years of-age and is tho second surviving. Son of the Earl of Enniskillen and a brother-in-law of Lord Delamero who owns a largo amount of land in the East African Proctectorate. He was formerly in tho Army, and served with the 10th Hussars in the South African war. The murder case referred to was the trial of Mr Cole for shooting a native. According to the evidence given at tho trail in the Nakura High Con ;t in May last, a sheep was stolen on the night of April 9 from a farm. Two days after Mr. Colo, accompanied by his manager and some native servants set out to follow a trail which led them to a hut three miles away. There they found three natives plucking tiie wool frfom a sheepskin.

Two of the natives ran away on seeing the party approaching. Mr. Colo fired at them, and brought one down. The wounded man was attended to hut died of his injuries. The third native was captured, and afterwards released. The jury at the trial returned a verdict of “Not guilty,” and Mr. Cole was released. Attention was subsequently’ called to the matter - in tho House of Commons, and on August 9 Mr. Harcourt stated that he was then in telegraphic communication with the Govornnor on the subject.