SUSPICIOUS DEATH, AND THE INQUEST.

Dunstan Times, Issue 873, 10 January 1879, Page 3

SUSPICIOUS DEATH, AND THE INQUEST.

Constable Mee, of Roxburgh wasinformed that a Chinaman was missing, under suspicious circumstances, from Allan’s Gully, near Waikaia, and that a Chinaman named Li Hawk was about to go to Roxburgh to report to the police. As Li Hawk did not come, the constable proceeded on the 21st to Waikaia and saw him. He informed the that in April last a Chinaman named Chee Yee was a mate of Lis in a claim at Waikaia. In the latter end of that month he left Waikaia and went to live by himself in a hut at Allan’s Gully About a month afterwards Li Hawk went to see Ch e Ye, but failed to tiud him. He afterwards made inquiries for him, but without success. The constable, in company with Li Hawk and othet Chinamen, went to the hut which had been occupied by the missing man, and found in it a quantity of Chinese clothing, and some blankets upon a stre.eher in the hut. The blankets were rent in pieces, and there were s>\ eral marks of blood upon them. The Constable and Chinamen dug up the floor of the hut, and examined several places in the vicinity of it, with the view of finding the body of the missing man, but did not succeed in finding any trace of it. On the strength of this information Mr Inspector Thomson despatched the Chinese Interpreter, Wong Gye, and with his assistance Constable Mee and some Chinamen discovered the skeleton of a man in Allan s Creek, supposed to be that of Chee Yee. An inquest was held at Roxburgh on the 7th instant before W. L. Simpson, Esq., Coroner, when after hearing evidence, which was substantially the same as above an open Verdict was returned.