An Extraordinary Crime.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 22, 26 September 1905, Page 3

An Extraordinary Crime.

At Wellington, on Sunday night, a chinaman was murdered under what appear at present very wanton circumstances. An old fellow named Jo Kum Yum Yung, living m Haining street, had gone ■to another house for some pea-nuts. On his way back some man fired two shots at him. Yum was found with a bullet m the back of the head, and though medical aid was proenred, he died m the hospital at ten o'clock. There were few persons m the street, and apparently only two saw the assailant. One was a china man, who, from the other street, saw shots fired, and followed the man, whom he describes as a tall man, wearing a three-quarter drab-coloured coat.

A man, who gave the name of Lionel Terry, gave himself up to the police station on Monday morning, as the murderer of the chinaman. Terry is a stranger to the colony, and is said to hold strong views on the subjeot of aliens.