THE WELLINGTON MURDER.

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1905, Page 1

THE WELLINGTON MURDER.

[bv electric telegraph.]

[rEB TRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, September 26. An inquiry concerning the death of Jec Kinn Yung;, the victim of Sunday night's tragedy in Plaining street, was conducted bv the District Coroner this afternoon. Lionel Terry, the self-accused murderer, was present in the custody of two troopers. While the jury was absent from the room-viewing tho body, Terry unconcernedly discussed the weather and North Island scenery with the police. Throughout the subsequent proceedings he was a, imperturbable as ever. When asked if he wished to put any question to the witnesses examined, his smiling reply, "No thank you," indicated that he was the least concerned person present. Oneo only did he show annoyance, and that was when a Chinese witness related how, one evening last week, Terry entered his house in Naming street, and saying that ho was an inspector took the names of some -ersons who were playing cards. He objected that the word "inspector" had been put into the witness's mouth by counsel for the Crown.

The Coroner: "There are all sorts of inspectors in (his country."

Terry: "Olv yes; I might have been a sanitary inspector, I daresay, but seeing that I made all sorts of enquiries about their gambling, tho imputation is that T might have been imposing as an Inspector of Police." The Coroner : "You will have an ormortnnity, in a higher court, of contradicting the witness's statement." Terrv : 'T am not contradicting you."

The evidence riven added little to what has already been published. Two eyewitnesses of the tragedy told of having seen a tall man use a revolver and then walk off. The man was wearing an overcoat. similar to the one produced, found at Terry's lodgings.

The jury having retired to consider their finding returned in a quarter of an hour. .As they re-appeared, Terry remarked: "Here they come." The foreman said that the verdict was that Joe Kuin Yung's death was caused bv a, bullet wound ' inflicted by Lionel Terrv. "Wilfully':" asked the Coroner. "1 can't say," replied the foreman.

Throughout tiiis final scene Terrv remained unruffled, and after the Coroner and the jury had left the room he turned with a careless laugh to his custodians, and said: "it wasn't xery interesting, was it." Terry will lie brought before the Magistrate on Monday on a capital charge. It is reported that Terry says he nicked out Kuin Yung a.s his victim because he looked old and decrepit, and as if life was a burden to him.