DEATH OF CHINAMAN

Southland Times, Issue 20613, 11 October 1928, Page 7

DEATH OF CHINAMAN

MURDER CHARGE FOLLOWS. Sydney, October 9. Ernest Percival Trapman was committed for trial on the charge of murdering the Chinaman Gow, whose widow he married a few days after Gow’s death. Mrs Trapman was remanded to October 15.—Australian Press Association. A startling disclosure was made at the inquiry into the death of Percy Gow r , a Chinese merchant, who, with his European wife, lived in Sydney. The medical evidence showed there was arsenic in Gow’s stomach and that he had a lingering illness. The widow’, a few days later, married Ernest Trapman, of the Australian navy, who frequently visited the Gows. He admitted familiarity with Mrs Gow, whom he loved very dearly. The police produced a statement in which Trapman declared that Gow had begged him to give him poison to finish him. He at first declined, then agreed, and gave him a spoonful, from which he died.