A QUEENSLAND HORROR.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13277, 30 November 1911, Page 5

A QUEENSLAND HORROR.

M I'D• 11 01 IKE CHINGS,

M sC U ' f BJ 1 Oi{T] T HE COURT

(f I - iS-OU\TION—COPTBIGHT.J

El isNine, Nov 29.

Ti;e Police Court proceedings were (•fi'iiiiii-nci'd at .Maekay to-day against (•;• ir;..,'.' >iilv:i, i>. Cingalese, charged

with t!ie i;n:r<icr of Agnes Ching and ii.-(. chiidivu. The accused had been i>ii'.;)!oy v -(| at Chiim's farm.

j 'The arresting constable detailed a j convi rsaiion with prisoner, who had said Liiat when Chiug left homo ho was sliooti'ig hawks with Clung's gun and al'icnvards lie went to sloop near the i !-;;i!\>. ;iy. 110 met Ching on the latter i returning home, and ho told him that i 'no had not soon the family. The sus- | ;irr-t had said that alter tho victims |of the murder wore discovered he : wc>ut to inform tho police. He car--1 ;i.-i! il'•.■■• f'othos ho \\v\ been wearing M":i.'.i ilij day in a )>arcol, but as ! tln\v we;-.' galling his knee he threw j lh' mi :■'. ay. Witness said to tilt

' :'■',■ :. ■■..'!■. ''Yon nvv fooling. You know : ivh , i.-uvdi'ivd the family.'1 Tho pris- :':*.(.■!• lTi.'.i.d, "God ktio'.vs they were ; :'".;.l ti'i :v-o. I nover murdered them." j V.'i'i'-:>, t!\e bodies of tho two missing | (viUiv; vcr;1 found prisoner brokt. j(!'i,.-;i :■:...! cnVi. Tho trucks near

v:n-. 'v t■:" v.i'p'i f! were round comparer] -::'v;h ]M-isi"i:HMI's boots. Another !H,lico witness declared Hr.it. wisnisov admitted burning the (■lnfills li." iv:i? wearing tin the day of the* murder. Witness found in the rer;pin.'-. of the firos a portion of thb

r>[;tii'!i'.':, a gold watch, a razor and a ;rr"'iciHe bottle which prisoner claimed. Pri.-mor bad tol-I witness that bp nrwl a nciglitiouring Indian farmer f 1";.:,.': ■■ Khan) and a whito man h.-d '■•.iiissjjrorl to inurdor the family a

!';>■,-.• Sn-iHav:-. before. The prisoner had add 'd "'lVt'lcv Khan shot the moth--i- md kiH-ilthe bnby beside her. 1

.'.n! :.T-n;li- pud Hiudiie. When Fddir< :":rl Dolly returned from school T told tV::n that their mother and Hie oHkt children were waiting for ibr-u in the brick paddock. We went tfi'/rther. nnd Dooley Khan, waiting ~;■;, ;l pn-, y\{\:\ shot them. Dooley Kh-v. wanted tn marry May Chimi

~.,,] r.-,.f, t!, f , f : inn. I wanted Mnudie. lint tho mother objected." Prisoner had admitted that he used a revolver to shoot Maudio nnd lluprhie, and •if!")- K":ireliii".c the enne paddock wit-nr-ss Found the weapon.