MISSIONARY REPORTED MURDERED
NO FURTHER NEWS (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, March 5. No further information has been received by the relatives of Mr A. Hayman, the Auckland missionary who was reported to have been killed by bandits in China on Christmas Day. Mr Hayman's mother, Mrs J. E. Hayman, of Mount Eden, received a letter a few days ago from Mr Hayman's wife, who has been staying in Shanghai; stating she had received a letter from her husband, dated December 7. He said the bandits had made him write a further letter to the British authorities in Nanking demanding a ransom. The bandits threatmed to murder him if the money was not quickly forthcoming. Mr Hayman's wife's letter was dated January 20, and in it she stated that she had heard nothing further up to that date.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21415, 6 March 1935, Page 12
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137MISSIONARY REPORTED MURDERED Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21415, 6 March 1935, Page 12
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