BRIDE MURDERED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 254, 26 October 1928, Page 7

BRIDE MURDERED.

Chinese Slays Rich Wife On

Honeymoon.

SENTENCED TO DEATH.

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, October 25.

Chung Yi Miao, a Chinese law student, was sentenced to death to-day at Carlisle for strangling his Chinese wife at Borrowdale during their honeymoon in the lake district on June 19.

Accused heatedly protested his innocence after sentence had been passed, but Mr. Justice Humphreys intimated that he believed the verdict was right. Miao was an extremely clever man, always ready with an answer.

For the defence it was suggested that two Easterners, either Chinese or Japanese, had murdered the woman for the jewels she carried, which were worth £3000. She was the daughter of a Chinese millionaire.

The Crown, however, showed that no Orientals, other than accused, had been within three miles of the scene of the murder.

Late on the night of June 19, a young Chinese woman who had been staying with her husband at a boarding house at Grange, in Barrowdale, Cumberland, was found dead near the main road. She was apparently strangled, and the crime appeared to have been done with a window cord, which was knotted so tightly that it was cutting into the flesh. The next morning the husband, Chung Yi Miao, aged 28, was arrected in his bedroom at the boardinghouse. He appeared before the Keswick Police Court charged with the murder. He , said that he wanted the parents and relatives of both his wife and himself to be present so that the trial would satisfy both sides.