MONKEY DETECTIVE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3043, 2 April 1917, Page 9

MONKEY DETECTIVE

■' SHOWS MASTER'S GEiAVE AJfD ;; HIS ALLEGED MURDERERI . <' How tlio murder of a Chinese. <con--1 jurer was revealed and the alleged ;; murderer identified through tie ac'j tions of an intelligent monkey belongI : ing to the dead man is relateid by the I "Singapore Eree Press." Resting; in I, a Malay hut, after a performance! on !■; a rubber estate'near Taiping, the oon- '! jtiror was attackedj killed, and robbed, the Wdy afterwards being dragged out Ji and buried...Tho murder apparently [i was witnessed by, the monkey, wliiich j, took refuge in. the rafters. . ■ Later a European walking some «lisj; tance from the liiifc was surprised by a ; monkey coming towards him and pulling at the leg of his trousers. He triedi j! to drive the. animal away by it, but it persisted in clawing at his legs and then trottiug a little ttot i' ahead and looking back, to see if, it I; was being followed. Finally the man Ji followed the monkey to a mound of. £ freshly turned earth, which it began to j: Eprateh up. The man informed tho , police, who dug up and found! ! the mutijated body of the monkey's; ) master. jj Suspicion fell upon a Malay, who, on; L being brought up at tho police station, with a numbor of other men, was im- ) mediately attacked with the greatest >j fury by tho monkey; -which was with , difficulty prevented' from doing him i serious injury; The Malay's guilt has ' yet to bo established by the Court.