MURDER TRIAL OPENED
The Lake Coleridge Case
CHARGE AGAINST COLENSO ALLEGED DELIBERATE ACT (Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, This day. The Lake Coleridge murder trial was opened at the Supreme Court this morning before the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, when Alfred James Stanley Colenso, aged 32 years, a labourer, pleaded not guilty to a charge that on September 3rd last, he murdered Robert William Cockburn.
Mr. Lascelles appeared for the prisoner and with him Mr. Stacey. Evidence was given on the lines similar to the Lower Court. The Crown Prosecutor, Mr. Donnelly, said that the Crown submitted that the accused shot Cockburn and meant to kill him. TTTe case is proceeding.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 129, 5 November 1930, Page 5
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