MURDER IN VANCOUVER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 91, 20 April 1914, Page 3

MURDER IN VANCOUVER.

CHINESE BOY'S CONFESSION,

VANCOUVER, April 6. ■ivong, a Chinese honseboy, has confessed to the murder of Mrs Charles milliard, wife of the Oana-ctian-Facilic passenger agent at Vancouver. Mr" Millard is exceedingly wcll-knovm to overseas visitors as fte goes to meet all the boats coming from Sydney and Auckland. He went down to meet the Makura, leaving his wife at home.

.The.lattter had, a day or two previously reprimanded Kong for some act of Inland while Mr Millard was out the Chinese is said* to have attacked hisanstrcss with a chair, and Killed her.

I. Kong was only 17 years of age," and ■ was a remarkably intelligent lad He (attended school during the day, and .•was a good, scholar. The crime was discovered owing to the bloodstains . on^ carpet being noticed. ■■ -^murferhas resulted, an much anti-Chmese . feeling hei-e, and Chinese servants have been dismissed ■wholesale, while several of them have ■been -assaulted in the streets /