KYEBURN MURDER

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1928, Page 5

KYEBURN MURDER

TRIAL OF HARDIE

; ' FURTHER EVIDENCE. ,

(By Telegraph—Press Association).

DUNEDIN, October 31

.Kyeburn murder trial was resumed this, morning when .'Sue Pee, an old Chinafnan who vyorked with the murdered man and gave the first news of the tragedy, gave evidence which had to be taken through an interpreter. Witness remembered a man arriving at Shum’s but on -a Tuesday.. This man showed him pictures of the exhibition and another of a man with a big mouth. This r .man asked for, Shiim’s gun aricl; '’’cartridges and ‘ they went towards' Shum’s''claim. Witness .was 'proceeding to .t©il-what-Shum--faid when he found him shot, but ,Mr Hanlon raised the point that, such w.as idiot admissable, except as a dying declaration, which he argued it was not. The judge said that .it was not desirable to argue this before the jury, and counsel retired with him.

On the Court resuming, Sue Pee said Shum cried out to him: “I am dying; that man shot me.” ■ Pee which man and Shum replied the man whom I gave dinner to, "., He demanded £IOO. I gave him all my gold and he shot me several times. That man has no heart. . ,v . •

When being supported to the hut Shum said his intestines were punctured and exclaimed, “ I must die.” Sue Pee was asked by the Crown Prosecutor who was the man who came to the hut. The interpreter: “ He says that man is here.” ' Witness then pointed to the accused. Witness said on the Friday following Shum’s death, witness was placed before a row of seventeen men at the police station. From the prosecutor: ‘‘Was the accused there?” Interpreter: ‘‘ He says if he was not there, how could I have picked him out ? ” ' Witness to the amusement of the Court, then demonstrated the swaying of the accused when in the line of men, in. the police yard. Cross-examined, Sue Pee said he had never seen where Shum kept his gold and had not been in his bedroom. Shum had fold him that the gold washups amounted to a little over - two ounces. Asked if they were good friends, witness said, if they were not he would not have been working for Shum. ......