CHINAMAN MURDERED BY MYSTERIOUS ASSAILANT

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6665, 19 July 1928, Page 6

CHINAMAN MURDERED BY MYSTERIOUS ASSAILANT

GOLD DIGGINGS’ TRAGEDY IN OTAGO. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Last Night. Gasping that he had Deen shot three times Joe Shorn, a Chinese whoso ago is believed to be between forty-eight and fifty years, rushed out of his hut at the Kyeburn Diggings yesterday afternoon to where his mate was cutting wood and collapsed'in the latter’s arms. Shorn died this morning as the result ,of the murderous assault that was evidently committed upon him. Prom the details that have reached tho ..police district headquarters it would appear that Shem’s companion, Sue Pue, had gone away to cut wood. A man arrived at their hut at X p.m. yesterday and was given a cui of tea. He then demanded money but there was no money in the house. About 3.30~ p.m. Shorn came rushing after Pue and called out that ho had been shot three times.

Sue at the time was working about twenty chains from the hut and carried the wounded man back to the hut. Then in fear and trembling he stayed behind the closed door afraid to venture out in the dark.

Ho arrived at the Kyeburn hotel early this morning bearing nows of the tragedy, having, left the body of Shorn in the hut. I

• Constable Pox, of Naseby and a doctor immediately proceeded to the scone arriving at the hut'some time before noon. It was thought that Shem had then been dead four or live hours.

There was a bullet in nis right arm of .22 calibre, another in his throat, and the cine that killed him entered below the loft breast and passed through the stomach and'out through tho left thigh. Kyeburn Diggings is an old golddigging settlement in Maniototo and is about 106 miles northwest pf Dunedin in the heart of Central Otago.