CHINESE MURDERED

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 247, 19 July 1928, Page 10

CHINESE MURDERED

TRAGEDY AT KYEBURN DIGGINGS SHOT THREE TIMES BY UNKNOWN ASSAILANT Dominion Special Service. Dunedin, July IS. Gasping that he had been shot throe times, Joe Shero, a Chinese, whose age is believed to be between forty-eight and fifty years, rushed out of his hut at the kyeburn diggings yesterday afternoon to where his mate was cutting wood, and collapse in the latter’s arms. Shem died this morning ns the result of the murderous assault that was evidently committed upon him.

From the details that have reached the police district headquarters it would appear that Shem’s companion, Sue Pue, had gone away to cut wood. A man arrived at their hut at 1 p.m. yesterday, and was given a cup of tea. He then demanded money, but there was no money in the house. About 3.30 p.m. Shem came rushing after Pue and called out. that he had been shot three times. Sue at the time was working about 20 chains from the hut and carried the wounded man back to the hut. Then in fear and trembling he stayed behind the closed door afraid to venture out in the dark. He arrived, at the Kyeburn Hotel this morning bearing the news of the tragedy, having left the body of Shem in the hut about 6 a.m. or several hours before the police arrived. Constable Fox, of Naseby, and a doctor immediately proceeded to the scene, arriving at the hut some time before nooh. It was thought that Shem had , then been dead four or five hours. There was a bullet in bis right arm of .22 calibre, another in his throat, and the one that killed him entered below the left breast and passed through the stomach and out through the left thigh. Kyeburn diggings is an old golddigging settlement in Maniototo, and is about 106 miles north-east of Dunedin in the heart of Central Otago. The deceased had a brother, Joe Pol, who lives in Carroll Street, Dunedin.