SUICIDE IN PRISON CELL
CHINESE ACCUSED OF MURDER, By Telegraph—-Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, Nov. 9. Following the murder of a Chinese, Lee Chong, Yee Kyer, his compatriot, who was arrested on a charge of murder, committed suicide in his cell by hanging himself with a piece of blanket. Cheong, a gardener, was brutally murdered in a hut at Coolabah, near Warren. His throat was cut from ear to ear and his face was laid open by another cut. He was apparently killed after a terrific struggle with the murderer.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1929, Page 9
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