ALLEGED MURDER

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1920, Page 2

ALLEGED MURDER

LATER INFORMATION

MURDERER TAKES TO THE BUSH

(Per Press Association.)

TAUMARUNUI, October 15

Anderson, who had been discharged from employment and had not been near Loft’s farm for two weeks turned up at seven o’clock last .night with a .303 rifle. He opened the kitchen window from the outside, after asking for food and an overcoat, and - pointed the rifle through the window at Jim Loft. As the gun went off Frank Telfour made a rush and received the bullet in the heart. In the kitchen were the two Loft Brothers, Mrs James Loft and a man named Morris, who was installing a milking plant on the farm. Mrs Loft hid the children under the table when the firing started. Jim Loft jumped through the bedroom window and another shot was heard outside. Jim called to his brother: “I am all right.” He then swam over the river and made barefooted fot Akopae. Today Anderson secured a further supplyof cartridges from the settlers and has been traced since by a search party to thick bush near Roadie’s whare, where the quarry was fired at but retreated further into the bush.

An inquest is being held at Loft’s farm this evening. It is raining hard and the search party is having a trying