THE KYEBURN MURDER.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XIII, Issue 3684, 20 August 1880, Page 3

THE KYEBURN MURDER.

The Dunedin Morning EeraU of Aug. 9 says:—We learn that on the night on which Mrs Young was murdered, a friend of hers from Bannookburn was with her until a late hour. Mrs Toung had intended returning to Scotland, but before doing so proposed spending a few days at Bannockbnrn. The gentleman who had been in her company as noted, slept in a house about 260 yards off. After the murder, part of a stack of straw hear the .house was found to be so altered as to enable a person or persons to hide there, and still command a view of the house in which the visitor slept. It is supposed that when the murderer or murderers saw the light put out there, they at once proceeded to work. The dreadful crime was discovered by a Chinaman who lived about 65 yards from Mrs Young's house. Having been kindly treated by deceased, he was in the habi l ; of carrying water and wood for her, At 6 o'clock in the morning he noticed that she was not stirring, and as she was usually an early riser, he went to the house to ascertain the cause. Hero he discovered the deceased lying on the floor, but still conscious. She told him to go for her friend. The Chinaman gave the alarm, and on her friend coming he askedher whether a Chinaman had done it. She replied "Yes." This leaves the matter in uncertainty so far as her statement is conoorned, The doctor says the struggle must have bsen a terrible one; deceased apparently had had a firm hold of one of. the murderers by the hair of his head. Forty sovereigns were found in an old teapot which the murderers missed, though they ransacked tbo house. The inquest, says the Star, was hold at the Kyeburn on Friday. Only two witnesses, to identify the body, were examined previous to the funeral of deceased, which took place at 2.30 p.m. About 300 people from alt parts of the district followed the remains to the place of interment. A calico mask and a pocket handkerchief, with stains of blood have been discovered. The front door had evidently been broken in by stones, and the injuries from which the deceased died were inflicted by the stones being thrown at her, as they are all bloodstained. In the house were found a white handkerchief, with pink border, and three pieces of whitish twine - nil blood-stained. It is thought that attempts were made to gag her. Evidences of a severe strugglo are apparent on the wrists of the deceased, which were black from struggling. One of them had been bitten, the marks of the teeth being plainly discernible under and over the wrist. Footprints, have also been discovered in the neighbourhood of the garden fence from where the large stones have been lifted. Three Chinamen left the distriot on the morning of the murder, and one of them was arrested in Naseby last night, It is thought that the polioo have now a due. The ovidenco given so far tends to implicate a Chinaman, but nothing of a direot character has been elioited, The Eev J. M'Cosh Smith officiated ot the funeral, which was a most impressive affair, After the funeral, tho inquest was resumed, and at a late hour adjourned till this morning. The Chinaman arrested at Nnseby last night was taken to Eyeburn this morning. On his hut being examined, a pair of trousers with blood marks, and with a stone in one of the pockets, wss discovered. Detective Henderson was on the saene of the murder yesterday. Commissioner Weldon followed, fhe inquost has been further adjourned until next Wednesday. Several Chinamon have cleared out of the district, but the police areon their track,