DEATH OF A CHINAMAN

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 October 1928, Page 11

DEATH OF A CHINAMAN

THE KVEBIIRN CASE. HARDIE ON TRIAL. EVIDENCE OF SUE PEE. (By Tebgraph—Presa Association.) DUNEDIN, Oct. 31. The Kyeburn murder trial', was resmnjad .this morning, when Sue Pee. the old Chinaman who worked with the murdered man and gave tire finst news or the tragedy, gave evidence, 5 w:hioh had to he taken through 'an interpreter. Witness remembered a man arriving at Shinn’s hut on a Tuesday. This man showed him four pictures of the exhibition and another of a man with a big mouth. This man asked tor Shum’fej gun and cartridges, and they went towards Sbum’s claim. Witness was proceeding to tell wliat Shum said when he found him shot but Mr liunion, for accused,' Hardie, aaisod the point that such was not admissible except as a dying declaration, which be argued it wars not. Mr Justice Maegregoir said that it was not desirable to argue this point before a iury and. counsel retired with him. On the court resuming, Sue Pee said that Shum cried out to hint, “I am dying. That mhn shot me.” Pee asked which man and Shum replied, “The man we gave the dinner to. He demanded £IOO. I gave him all my gold'. He idiot hie several times. That man has no heart.” When 'being suppoihed to tire hut Shum said that his intestines were punctured, and exclaimed “I must clie.’ ,; Sue Pee was asked by it'he Ci-own Prosecutor who was the man who came to tlie hut. The intorpretei': “He says that man ia here.” " ■' : , Witness then pointed to accused. Witnass said that on the '.Friday foil'owing Shun Is death witness was placed before a row of seventeen men at the police station. , The Crown Prosecutor : “Was the accused there?” The interpreter: “He says if he was, not then how'could I have picked him out.” ‘ ‘ ; Witness, to the amuisemeint of the court, then demonstrated the swaying of the accused when in the line of men in thpi police yard. Cross-examined, Sue Pee said (that he •had never .seen where Shum kept his gold, and he hud not been in bits bedroom. Shum had ' told ' h.im that the gold wash-ups amounted to a little over two ounces. As,ked if they were friends, witness said that if thev we/re not lie would not have been working for Shum. • g " (Proceeding).