TRAGIC HONEYMOON.
CHINESE WOMAN STRANGLED. (Australian Press Association). LONDON, Nov. 19. Chung yi Miao, a Chinese law student who was sentenced to death at Carlisle for strangling his Chinese wife during their honeymoon, made a dramatic three and a half hours’ speech in the Court of Criminal Appeal against his sentence. Miao called two new witnesses, who stated that they had seen an Oriental near the scene of the murder on July 19. Addressing the court, Miao stated that it was the Chinese custom that when a woman married her property went to her husband -while she lived, but reverted to her family on her death. APPEAL DISMISSED. (Australian Press Association.) Received November 21, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 20. Miao’s appeal was dismissed. Summing up at the trial last month the Judge stated that it wa6 evident the murderer had staged the affair. The clothes of the woman were torn, suggesting an outrage, but there was no sign of a bruise on the body. He added that Miao was an extremely clever man, who always had a ready answer. The defence suggested that two Easterners, either Chinese or Japanese, had murdered the woman for the jewels she carried. Tho jewels were worth £30,000, the dead woman being a daughter of a Chinese millionaire.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 304, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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