A CHINAMAN THE VICTIM.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12970, 25 September 1905, Page 5

A CHINAMAN THE VICTIM.

WA.Yj-Oi^ CIRCUMSTANCES.

/ Per Press Association. Welling-tpn, September 25. A CRinaman was uiurlereil last, hk'hi umler what appears at. present very wonton circumstances. ATTold fefiow named Joe Kutn Yung. i iv ?«g -one to another bouse- for" some p.«anu\s; and on his way back some mau fired two shots at him. --, _~ . Yung was, found- with a ballot in tho back of his beo.l, and though medical uid was procured, died in the hospital at 10 o'clock, Ih^i-o were few persons in tiic street, anil, arpartntly^njy; two saw the asstoilatit. 'Ciiie" was a Chinaman, who. from other side of the strmit, saw ti.e shot lired, and followed ilie man. wjwm he describes as a tall man. wearing" a three-quarter drab-coloured coal, till be, lost him ;n ,the main thoroughfare. The olhor \vas a European, who was in Taranaki-strcct. and saw a man Lurrying away. r l he man -is. supposed to be a European. The police -.know of no cause for animo^itv against the deceased. i Yung was nearly seventy, and had betn in the ct lony ironi 25 to 30 years, but in Wellington/ _only -six j months. He was a semi-invalid, having broken a leg and suffered other injuries while mining in Westland. His fellow-countrymen were subscribing to send him back to China, lie was practically penniless, and ' was not known to have had cause for rjiiarrel with anyone.