THE NEWTOWN MURDER MYSTERY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2391, 22 February 1915, Page 6

THE NEWTOWN MURDER MYSTERY

SUSPECT, ARRESTED AT FEILDJNG Some excitement was caused in tho City on Saturday whon it was known that a telegram had been received at police headquarters announcing tho arrest at Foilding of a man named Charles Harvoy, suspccted of being concerned in the murder of the Chinese fruiterer, Wong Way Ching, at his shop _in Adelaide Road, which occurred just before 1 o'clock on tho morning of Saturday, September 12. Tho policeman on tho beat (Constable Wilson) noticed a light burning in a room at the back of the shop on tho morning in question, and tho blind on the shop window being drawn <n littlo asido, he saw through an open doorway msido tho shop the feet of a man lying on tho floor of the back room. On gaining . admittance through tho back door tho constablo discovered tho body of tho Chinaman on its back, with terrible injuries inflicted, tho skl'ill being fractured in several placos. The weapon with which the murder had presumably been committed, a bar of iron, lay on tho counter. Money had been stolon.

Searching inquiries' were made by Detective-Sergeant Cassells subsequent to the murder, but without any definite result. An inquest was held on Wong Way Ching on October 6, when the Coroner returned a verdict that • the death of deceased was duo to fracture of tho skull, caused by a blow from an iron bar, inflicted, by some person unknown. Subsequently a reward of £100 was offered for informatidn leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer.