VIOLENT DEATHS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13666, 7 August 1908, Page 5

VIOLENT DEATHS.

QUARREL AMONG CHINESE. ->.

SHOT AT CLOSE RAN(^E.

Per Prefci Aetoociation'.-

f i 1 iurtC., AUCKLAND, 1 . A' boy Sohool &ftetnoon : looked into a.' ■ cottage occupied by. two Chinßse-'^jiarket : gardeners, Ah Jing .'dM Louie "Yang, and ' ' saw Ah Jing stretched out :on the floor ■ withia gun 'beside Jiim, ' r ' When' investigation : was iniide;Ah Jing was found in .bed fully cloth'e'd an extensive wound 'in .tlie''a&doipfci, the flesh being seared,, so that it wjis evident that he range. The woutlded mail . asserted 'that Louie Yang, sliothiln. Apparently . was a fierce struggle, the \iei tieing covefe'd with blood and'tlie'ctirtains, jffli-.a.d<swn. ■ There was a stream' of .bloC>(l, .cttniiniting • in 1 a pool,: wliew Ah JingJ .fjell.- Jifag sJiid that the quarrel arose. owing- to- much talk, afid-owing to r Louie? Yang %ing. in bed while' he worked. "TlierS was much talk," he added.. !" We v -fight; . lie HecL'' Ah Jing is in the hospital,. and 'hi^ y cotidition is very critical.'. When Louie Yaug was arrested this morning' at Panirmra.ha had" one hand ba<Jly cut. . , 1 This, afternoon Lonie Yaaig. was charged : : .ijti the I Hospital before ,Mr. J)yeiy with attempting:.the : murder, of his . latQ , confrere. The depositions, of ytlie wounded: man were taken. He swofe that lie'and the accused, .had quarrelled,., coming to iblfrws. Accused {lieift rustied ,to \\'hei , o the gun was kept, whilst witness secured a butcher's knife. ' Tlie accused' him: Witness next tiiovo wa6 -to ae-' camp, taking' away ;the> knife, and break-,." ing it on the my presumably as- : it,.-was found broken. "Accused was remanded till the 13th iw*fc. 1

MAORIS REVOLTING CRIME. - , -, »,• ; >v• WHANGAIiEI, August 6." Acting on information - received, - Serv geanfc Moor© and Constable M|ode, of Whangarei, left for the, Mangakahia district on Tuesday. and arrested there-yes« terday-a Maori man, Birtni .Ngatino and Emma Ngatino, his Wife, on iy charge of : wilful murder of theit' inftotv k>n, Alakarino, eigfclieen montlis old, -'on or about July, 2nd. Both .accused..,' and the body of' the victim- .to >Whang&fei late-last night. ; Tho alleged , details rer veal the committal of crime.- .v< - -'.v-'i* •« Th' 6 father of ithe ifritli . whotn they lived v : ' infisfcity,'-of a > violonti ■ type loath flung, his >:child oil the 'fire; .. Fop committed to. the . Auckland ■ Mental -• Htw-,-piral a' day or two" after,, .and' the child placed under treatment in. the; Hospital. ' About- the tuinie time of tha . shocking jt. is, (stated-that- W'>ini and .Emma. 'olso"-"th)$p.'.'thelr.".'..caM. on the fire three fillies. -The .baby, stpuVi gled - out of the flames; on. totho/hearth, and-was fluhg-. buok. ngain, And' Wfls tlfWi thrown outside : U> : end , its ; tortui'o mdetyth., It was left • thetfe allv.tii£ht,v und: .boriertr sebretly next day.-- i The dreadful - facts appear to-Have .been -only discovered oently, by other 1 Maoris. ■ -who •at onoej . notified the police. An enquiry ia Tieintt held, but. probably. it., .will be adjourheij-. to call important -witnesses* ■ si