SUSPICIOUS DEATH.

Evening Star, Issue 4941, 3 January 1879, Page 4

SUSPICIOUS DEATH.

Constable Mee was informed that a Chinaman was missing, under suspicious circumstances, from. Allan’s, Gully, near Waikaia, and that a Chinaman 'flamed Xu Hawk was about to go to Roxburgh to report ’ the matter to the police. As Li Hawk did.not come, the constable proceeded on the 21st to Waikaia and saw. him., He informed the constable that in; April last , a Chinaman named Chee Yee was a mate "of his in a claim at Waikaia,. In. the latter end of that month he left Waikaia and went to live by himself in a hut at Allan’s Gully., „ About a month afterwards Li, Hawk went, to .see Chee Yee, but -failed tQ.-fihd,, him. afterwards made.iaquiriesfor him, but without success. The i constable, in company with Li Hawk and other Chinamen, went to the hut which had been occupied by the missing man, and found in it a,quantity of Chinese clothing,‘and' some blankets upon a stretcher in the hut., Th.e, blankets were rent in pieces, and there were several marks of blood upon them. The constable and Chinamen dug up the floor of the’Tint, and examined several places in the vicinity of it, with the view of finding the'bo’dy of the missing man, but, did not succeed in finding any trace of it. Oh the strength of this information Mr Inspector Thomson despatched the Chinese interpreter,. Wopg Gye, and with his assistance Constable Mee and some Chinamen discovered the skeleton of a man in Allan’s Creek, suppoaed to he that of Chee Yee. An inquest will -be held at Roxburgh on the 7th inst.