GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER.
CHINAMAN CONVICTED. BY CABLE-PEEKS ASSOCIATION-COPY RIG Hi (Received Sep. 10, 10.35 a.m.) PERTH, Sep. 10. Yeong Yen was found guilty of manslaughter, and was sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Leong Yen, a Chinese shopkeeper, aged 29, was charged with having wilfully murdered his wife, Ruby Yen, whose fully-clothed body was found m a bag in "the Swin river. Two fishermen saw the sack floating and, ing suspicious, they informed the police, who removed the sack to the morgue. The body, which was found to be inside two sacks and tied round with rope, was fully dressed. The face appeared to bear traces of a violent blow above the nose, but the post mortem examination nroved that the woman’s brain was not injured. The doctor who conducted 1 the examination said that death was not due to drowning, hut might have been caused by suffocation.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 September 1925, Page 5
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