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Rural settlement just west of Timaru in South Canterbury, New Zealand, where the fugitive R.C. Horsch lived as Dr Stanley Stokowski until March 1984. | Hadlow, Canterbury, New Zealand | 2026-09-23 | 2026-09-23 |
Hadlow is a rural settlement near Timaru in South Canterbury, New Zealand.
The Stokowski Affair
The American known as Dr Stanley Stokowski, a director of the ethanol plant of Chemical Technology Limited at Clandeboye, lived at Hadlow until mid-March 1984, when he left the country on a stolen passport.1 In the weeks that followed, police searched properties at Clandeboye and Hadlow.2 The man was the fugitive R.C. Horsch.
Footnotes
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"Police look for U.S. chemist," The Press (Christchurch), June 6, 1984 (Press Association, Timaru). https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19840606.2.48 ↩︎
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"Police seek wife, child," The Press (Christchurch), June 13, 1984 (Press Association, Timaru). https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19840613.2.7 ↩︎