CHINESE MURDER

Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1928, Page 4

CHINESE MURDER

IN NORTH OF ENGLAND

(Australian Press Association)

(United Service.)

LONDON, Oct. 25

Chungyi Miao, a Chinese law student, was sentenced to death at Carlisle for strangling his Chinese wife at Borrowdale, during their honeymoon in the Lake District, on June 19th.

Ghungvi Miao heatedly protested his innocence, after passing of the sentence, hut Mr Justice Humphreys intimated that he believed that the verdict was right. Summing up the Judge said: “It is evident that the murderer had staged the affair .The clothes of the woman were torn suggesting that there had been an outrage, but there was no sign of any bruise on the woman’s body.” The Judge added: “Miao is an extremely clever man, who always has had a ready.answer.” ,

The defence suggested that two Easterners, either Chinese or Japanese, had murdered the woman for the jewels she carried, which were worth three thousand pounds, the wife having been the daughter of a Chinese millionaire. The Crown, however, showed that Orientals were not within three miles of the scene of the murder.