STRANGLED HIS WIFE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1928, Page 7

STRANGLED HIS WIFE.

CHINESE BRIDEGROOM’S CRIME

INCIDENT IN TONG WARFARE

l United Cress Association —By Electric Telegrapo Copyright.) (Australian Cress Association.) LONDON, Dec. 8. A startling story of the murder of his bride by the young Chinese Chung Yi Miao, the motive for which was not revealed at the dramatic trial, is published in the “Daily . Express.” Miao was executed yesterday. No relatives or compatriots were present, probably owing to the fact that Miao professed Christianity before his death. “From an exceptionally reliable source the statements, carefully investigated, have borne out all the ascertainable facts,” says the paper. The statement is that the grim tragedy was an incident in the deadly tong warfare which is rife in China. Aliao strangled Ills bride in obedience to the tong’s orders. Two mysterious Chinese were repeatedly mentioned at the trial. Several independent witnesses gave evidence that they saw the men in the district, but there was undoubted evidence that Miao was the perpetrator of the deed. The facts related in the “Express” show that the girl was of high class. She had received a Western education. She was the daughter of wealthy parents, and had managed her father’s exhibits at. Wembley. She was a frequent visitor to London night clubs. At the conclusion of the Wembley Exhibition she proceeded to China, where she met Miao, the son of a wealthy Chinese Government officer who had returned from Chicago. Miao’s Western education appealed to the girl and they were constantly in each other’s company at Hong Kong. Later the girl joined Miao in Chicago. Miao was a member of a powerful Chinese tong, and was horrified to learn in Chicago that the girl’s father was an enemy of his tong. He was summoned before the Chicago members of the tong and was instructed that lie had been specially selected to carry out vengeance. He was bound to obey. He protested, but the tong wore down his resistance. Miao gave reluctant consent and eventually married the girl. They then secretly left Chicago for London in the hope of avoiding the tong, but two tong members were ordered to watch their movements and traced them to the English Lake District. The facts strangely square with the evidence at the trial, where the absence of motive was stressed most strongly.