FREMANTLE TRAGEDY
BODY if! HARBOR INQUEST ON RUBY YEN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. BERTH, August, 13. (Received August 13, at 1i1.55 a.m.) The inquest was opened at I 1 romantic into the death oi Ruby Yen. The police gave evidence that the woman s husband, Leong Yen, signed a statement setting out that his wife wished to return to her home. He seized her to prevent her departure. She foudit him, and he hit her. She Ml dead. .He put the body in a hag, and later hired a motor car, and was taken to Fremantle, where he dropped the body into the river from the railway bridge. The inquest was adjourned. [A body found in a, sack in Fremantle Harbor was identified as that of R.uhy Leong Yen, the wife of a. Chinese named Leong Yen, whom she married a year ago. The post mortem examination revealed the fact that the victim had been strangled. Her husband was arrested on a charge of murder.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 5
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169FREMANTLE TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 5
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