THE KYEBURN MURDER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 423, 10 August 1880, Page 2

THE KYEBURN MURDER.

Concerning this fearful outrage, the correspondent of the Dunedin Evening Star, writes as follows, under date August 5 :—" The horrible murder committed ye»terday at the Kyeburn is only equalled in atrocity by that of the Dewars in Dunedin, and is involved, as yet, in the deepest mystery.; The ontrage-seems to ?have been committed early on Wednesday morning. The door of the house was buret open by large stones and knocked off its hinges. Three stones' found lying inside the house are from 30ft to 501b id weight. Two of them are covered with blood. A Chinaman, who was occasionally employed by the. deceased, | was the first to give the alarm.. She appears to have been able to speak, at this : time, and asked him to go for assistance. On the neighbors arriving she was asked who did it—whether a Chinaman or European —and "be led them to understand a Chinaman, but at this time it is uncertain whether Bhe was unconscious or not. A messenger was sent to Naseby fsr medical aid. Sergeant Morton, accompanied by A constable and 'Dr Whittoh, immediately left for the scene. The house was found to have been ransacked, and the deceased in her night-dress was lying on a mattress on the floor. She had been lifted from her bed. A serious wound was discovered on the left side of her head ; several of her ribs were smashed her collarbone was broken. A hay-fork,was found near the house. No mdney.or valuable* appear to have beea taken away. Over £1,000 in deposit receipts and £40 in cash were discovered. The object, of the murder was evidently to plunder, and although all likely places -iwertf turned out they missed'it; aB if Was kept in ft place in the kitchen known to herself alone. Mrs Young died from the injuries received at about 1.30' p.m. yesterday. She was universally respected, was kind and obliging, and she contemplated returning to Scotland very Boon. She attended a church meeting that afternoon, was ? in fremarkably gooMi spirits, and remarked that she was glad she would .soon le leaving the district, a's she was beginning to feel somewhat timid at nights. In-spector-Hickson arrived .from, Clyde early this morning, and Constable Bell from , Blacks. < The police and a number of .the residents have been examining the, Chinese huts for some evidence to implicate them, ' but have failed. Whether the deed has been done by a European or a Chinaman is still a doubtful question, and the 'district is quite excited over the event; but the people are hopeful that the perpetrators may soon be discovered."