A MURDER

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1930, Page 5

A MURDER

TWO MEN ARRESTED.

MURDER CHARGE AGAINST ONE*

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association I I * *

CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 4

Regarding the Coleridge murder, Alfred James Candiford Colenso, aged about thirty years, will he charged in the Magistrate’s Court to-morrow morning with the murder of Robert Allen Cockburn.

Arthur Edward Farquharson, an older man, is also in custody, bub what charge will be preferred against him is not known.

It will be alleged that Colenso and Farquharson are identical with two swaggers with whom Cockburn was talking when he -was last seen alive. Colenso, when arrested, had a rifle in his swag. They, were arrested late this afternoon, near Cass, by Detective Sergeant Young, and a party of detectives.

Oockburn’.s body was ’found by, F. Langbein, District Public Works Engineer, who, with a party of engineering students, was visiting Coleridge. The body lay across the wheel tracks on a narrow road. In his hand wa« a pipe freshly filled, and on the ground an unopened, matchbox. Nearby were the' charred etieks.'of a fire used to boil the' billy.

j Cockburn was shot,through the left lung, the bullet penetrating to near the spine.

The Greymouth police, who had ;been advised of the possibility of the wanted swaggers making for the West Coast, and had been on the look-out at the arrival of trains, received word, last evening of the arrests having been made at the Cass.

ACCUSED REMANDED,

CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 5.

L Before MagistrateiMosley this morning, Alfred. Janies Stanley Colenso, 32, was charged that at Lake Coleridge on September 3rd; he murdered Richard John Cockburn.

Arthur Edward Farquharson, 57, .was charged that on September 4th./ at Cass he was idle and disorderly, ...

Both were described as farm labourers of no fixed abode.

Both were remanded to September 12th. on'the application of the police. CHRISTCHURCH, September 5. There was a large crowd at the Courthouse. •'

Colenso was the first to be ushered from the van. He stepped down holding his head high. He was collarless but clean shaven., His coat and trousers were creased as though they had been slept in. He was closely accompanied to the cells by two constables. : Farquharson, air old To6kihg % m'att~ with bowed head, walked in Odense's rear to the cells. His age was given on the charge sheet as fifty-seven, but this morning lie would have passed as ten years older. He was also cbllnrless, and his tousled hair and drooping moustache gave him an unkempt appearance. |( . L ,