ACCUSATION PE MURDER
LAKE COLERIDGE SHOOTING \ REMAND OF SUSPECTED MAN. TWO FARM WORKERS ARRESTED, By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Sept. 5. Alfred James Stanley Colenso, aged 32, was charged before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., to-day that at Lake Coleridge on September 3 he murdered Richard John Cockburn. Arthur Edward Farquharson, aged 57, was charged that on September 4, at Cass, he was idle and disorderly. Both were described as farm labourers, with no fixed abode. Both were remanded to September 12 on the application of the police. Dead from a gunshot wound Cockbjirn, a farm labour aged 23, employed at Murchison’s sheep station, near Hooorata, was found by the roadside yesterday afternoon four miles from Lake Coleridge. He was found on the road fully dressed with a bullet wound in the chest.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1930, Page 6
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