How a MONKEY Turned DETECTIVE and Helped SOLVE a MURDER

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1164, 3 November 1917, Page 12 (Supplement)

How a MONKEY Turned DETECTIVE and Helped SOLVE a MURDER

HOW the murder of a Chinese conjurer was revealed and the alleged murderer identified through the actions of an intelligent monkey belonging to the dead man, is related by the Singapore Free Press. Resting in a Malay hut, the conjurer was attacked, killed and robbed, the body afterward being dragged out and buried. The murder apparently

was witnessed by the monkey, which took refuge in the rafters. Later, a European walking some distance from the hut was surprised by a monkey coming toward him and pulling at the leg of his trousers. He tried to drive the animal away by kicking it, but it persisted in clawing at his legs, and then trotting a little way ahead and looking back to see if it was being followed. Finally, the man accompanied the

monKey to a mouna ot rresnly-turncv earth, which it began to scratch up. The man informed the police, wio dug up tho soil and found the mutilated body of the monkey's master. Suspicion fell upon a Malay, who, on being brought, up at the police station with' a number of other men, was immediately attacked with the greatest fury by the monkey, which was with difficulty prevented from doing him serious injury.