CHINESE VENDETTA.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17581, 10 December 1928, Page 7

CHINESE VENDETTA.

A STARTLING STORY. CHUNG YI-MIAO’S CRIME. BY ORDER OF THE TONG. (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Dec. 8. A startling story of the murder of his bride by the Chinese Chung Yimiao, who was executed yesterday, is related in the Daily Express. No motive for the orime was revealed at the trial. The paper says that from an exceptionally reliable source it lias obtained statements which were carefully investigated and borne out by all the ascertainable facts. It asserts that the tragedy was an incident in Tong warfare, which is rife in China. Chung, says the paper, strangled his bride in obedience to the Tong's orders. Two mysterious Chinese were repeatedly mentioned at the trial. Several independent witnesses said they saw them in the district, hut. there was undoubted evidence that Chung was the perpetrator. The bride had received a high-class western education. Her parents were wealthy. She had managed her father's exhibits at the Empire Exhibition at Wembly. The paper says the girl was a frequent visitor to London night-clubs. After the exhibition she went to China where she met Chung, the sou of a wealthy Chinese in a Government office, who had returned from Chicago. His western education appealed to the girl. They were constantly in each other’s company at Hongkong. Later flic, girl joined Cluing at Chicago. Tlie man was a member of the Tong, and was horrified to learn in Chicago that the girl’s father was an enemy of that organisation. He was summoned before the Chicago members of Hie Tong, and instructed that lie had been especially selected to carry out vengeance and was bound to obey.

Chung protested, but Ihc Tong wore down his resistance until he gave his reluctant consent. Eventually lie was secretly married to the girl and as secretly left Chicago for London in tiie hope of avoiding Ihc Tong. Two members were ordered lo watch his movements and traced him and his bride to Ihc English lake district. These statements strangely lit in with the evidence at the trial when the absence of motive was very strongly stressed.