Another Murder in Poverty Bay

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 123, 23 April 1889, Page 2

Another Murder in Poverty Bay

THEVIOTIM'S WHAEE BUENED. AEIIENT OF A H aLF-CASIE. (per united press association.) GisßOKNii, April 22 News has just reached here of a horrible murder on the Mahia Peninsula. A man named Robert Gollan has been murdered by a half-caste named MeQuarrie. (iollau's remains were found amonst the ruins of his whare, which had been destroyed at Table Cape. On the night of the murder McQuarrie left his home, ana his young brother-in-law being frightened of being left at home in the dark, followed a short distance behind: AicQuarrie was heard to have fired th;6e shots. The appearance of the ground at Oollan's whare showed that a bleeding body had b«en dragged in* to the whare, which was then burned. The motive assigned is jealousy. McQuarrie had often expressed himself in jealous terms of Gollan on account of a Maori woman with whom he was living, and of whom McQuarrie was deeply enamoured. The other day he offered a te&ni £10 if h« would bring the woman to him. The police are at Mahia, and have arrested McQuarrie, who will be - taken to Wairoa for trial. .-.; Napibb, April 22 The Herald's Wairoa correspondent wires that a shepherd's house at Mahia, on the run of Mr Geo. Ormond has been discovered burned to the ground, with the remains of a man supposed to be Gollan, a shepherd to Ormond, in the debris. As suspicious circumstances were reported, Mr Large J.P., who has gone up to hold an inquest, is accompanied by Detective Grace and Dt Wilkinson*