FATAL SHOOTING CASE.
ONE SETTLER SHOOTS ANOTHER, DISPUTE ABOUT A FENCE. (15Y TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT) PIRONGIA, Yesterday. Tiils morning at eleven o'clock at Harapipi, John Pohlen, a naturalised Pole, who has been residing at Harapepe for nearly thirty years, had a dispute with a well-known settler, Patrick Corcoran, who bad recently taken McMinn's farm, which is adjacent to Pohlen's. The dispute was over a Council Reserve, tendered for by both men, and given to Corcoran. Corcoran and his son were working at a fence, when Pohlen approached with a gun, ami attempted to stop the fence being shifted. Failing this lie threatened to shoot, and covered Corcoran with ths gun. Joicoran lushed at him to grasp the gun, when Pohlen pulled the trigger an Corcoran received the charge below the heart.
He fell back into his son's arms, and crying out twice expired in a few minutes.
The police have been communicated with and Constable Jones ju.st passed through on his way to the scene of the tragedy. Pohlen, it will be remembered, was mixed up with an assault case with Mr McMinn, formerly a resident on the same farm.
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Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 209, 13 November 1897, Page 2
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