CHINESE AND SON MURDERED IN STORE.
~ (United Tress Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) BRISBANE, May 20. A man passing a general store owned by a Chinese. Young Kee, at Silkwood. near Jnnisfail. noticed one of the rooms in disorder. He investigated and found the mutilated bodies of Young Kee rnd his son, Willie Cheong, aged thirteen, with the heads battered to pulp, lying in a litter of wrecked furniture. They had evidently made a violent struggle for their lives. The police have a difficult task in tracing the murderer, as heavy rain obliterated all tracks in the vicinity of the store.—Australian Press Association. ...
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18468, 21 May 1928, Page 11
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