THE KYEBURN TRAGEDY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2013, 6 August 1880, Page 3

THE KYEBURN TRAGEDY.

[PKB PBEBB ASSOCIATION SPECIAL WIBK.] DUNEDIN, August 5. Further particulars with regard to the Kyeburn murder state that the outrage seems to have bean committed early on Wednesday morning. The door of the house was.burst open by large stones and knocked off its hinges. Three stones found inside the house are from 301bs to 501bs in weight. Two of them are covered with blood. A Chinaman, who was occasionally employed by the deceased, was the first to give the alarm. Deceased appears to have been able to speak at this time, and ashed him to go for assistance. On the neighbors arriving, she was asked who did it, whether a Chinaman or European, and she led them to understand that it was a Chinaman, but at time it is uncertain whether she was unconscious or not, A messenger was sent to N-iseby for medical aid, and Sergeant Morton, accompanied by a constable and Dr. Whittou, 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 loft side of her head, several of her ribs were smashed in and her collarbone was broken. A hay fork was fouiid near the house. No money or valuables appear to have been taken away. Over £IOOO in deposit receipts and £4O in cash were discovered. The object of the murderer was evidently to plunder, and although all likely places were turned out, the murderer missed it, as it was kept in a place in the kitchen known to deceased alone. Mrs Young died from the injuries received at about 130 p.tn. yesterday. She won universally respected, was kind and obliging, and she contemplated returning to Scotland very soon.