Chinaman Murdered

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1922, Page 3

Chinaman Murdered

I A -MYSTKIUOUS CimiK. [JJY TKt.fttlitAlMl—l*Kit I'KF.SH ASSOCIATION ! WANGANUI, .him' 1. At 11 lute hour yesterday evening the hotly of u Chinaman, Chow Yat. aged f>2, was I'ountl on the roadside of J.ongaere'Hoad, five miles from town, | with Ini Hot holes in Ids head. Police 1 investigations to-day convinced them that it was a case of murder. The scene of the murder was a wlmre situated at the corner of a paddock of a market garden. It was evident the man was shot in cold blood, as he walked to open the door, in response to a knock. The wounded man must then have made towards a neighbours, lcav-

inn a trail of blood oil tin* track. I' inallv la* evidently collapsed on tin* road, as bin pool of blood was tin*re. Sectninn]y tl*e murderer picked liis victim up at ibis spot, and carried him some distance down the road, where the body was found with the lens placed together and the arms folded across the chest. The whole affair is shrouded in mystery. Stewart, the son of a nearby settler, declared he hoard four shots in quick succession. The victim was a most inoffensive man, and had resided in the Dominion for many yoais, at one. time on the goldfields at Oreymouth. lie had accumulated wealth, and p*ob- ., I,! v robbery was tie* motive, though ! nothing is missing apparently.