TRAGIC CHAPTER

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10891, 19 July 1928, Page 5

TRAGIC CHAPTER

CHINAMAN MURDERED MYSTERIOUS ASSAILANT. Electric Te’egrapl-r—Press Association DUNEDIN, Last Night. Gasping that he had been shot three times Joe Shem, a Chinese whose age is believed to he 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. Shem died this morning as the result of the murderous assault that was evidently committed upon him. From the details that have reached the police district headquarters it would appear that Shem's companion, Sue Pue, had gone away to cu't wood. A man. arrived at their hut at 1 p.m. yesterday and was-given a cup of tea. He then demanded money but 'there was no money in the house. About 3.30 p.m. Shem came rushing after Pue and called out that he had been shot at 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 lie stayed behind th© closed door afraid to venture out in the dark. He arrived at the Kyeburn hotel early this morning, bearing news of the tragedy, having left the body of Shem in the hut.

Constable Fox, of Naseby, and a doctor immediately proceeded to the scene, arriving at the hut some time before noon. It was thought that Shem had then been dead four or five hours. There was a bullet in his right arm of .22 calibre, another in his throat, and the one that killed him entered below the left breast and passed through the stomach and out through the left thigh. Kyeburn Diggings is an old golddigging settlement in Maniototo and is about 106 miles northwest, of Dunedin in the heart of Central Otago. HEAT WAVE IN POLAND* WARSAW. July 18. More than fifty people have been drowned in lakes and rivers in Poland during the beat wave, which reached 125.5 degrees Falireinheit. Rivers, notably the Vistula, are so low that navigation has been abandoned in the upper courses and is likely soon to cease altogether. AFTER ITALIA CRASH. ROME, July 17. The “Tribuna’s” correspondent narrates that after the Italia crash the Nobile party cut up a bear which Malmgren shot, and were astonished to find in its stomaebf fragments of newspaper- printed in Italian and hits of material which had'evidently been torn off the Italia’s envelope. TRACKS ON BEAR ISLAND. OSLO, July 17. A party of fishermen told the Admiralty that they discovered on the Bear Island plateau two wheel tracks over eighty feet of snow leading to a cliff above the sea, and on th© edge of the cliff they found a piece of fur coat, a fur cap, and fragments of wood. The Admiralty is investigating whether- these are connected with Amundsqn.