THE PENALTY PAID

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20586, 8 December 1928, Page 13

THE PENALTY PAID

CHINESE MURDERER EXECUTED,

- (United Pres* Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 6, (Received Dec. 7, at 5.5 p.m.) Ohung-yi-miao, the young Chinaman who was convicted of strangling his Chinese bride on .November 20, was executed at Manchester. ’ No relatives oi 'Compatriots were present, probably owing !to the fact that Miao professed Christianity, before his death.—Australian Press Association.

A message received on October 26 stated that Chung Yi-miao, a-Chinese law student, was sentenced to death at Carlisle for strangling his Chinese wife at Borrowdale during their honeymoon in the Lakes district on June 19. Chung Yi-miao heatedly protested his innocence after the sentence' but Mr Justice Humphreys intimated that he believed the verdict was right. Summing up, the judge said it was evident hat the murderer had staged the affair. The clothes of the woman were torn,* suggesting outrage, but there was no sun of a bruise or the body.' added that Chung was an exceedingly clever man, who always had a ready answer. The defence suggested that two Easterners, either Chinese or Japanese, murdered the woman tor the je” els she carried, which were worth £3OOO. She was the, daughter of a Chinese millionaire. The Crown, however, showed that ,the Orientals were no', within three miles of the scene of the murder.