Bloody Murder

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 22, 12 September 1914, Page 3

Bloody Murder

CHINAMAN FOUND BATTERED

TO DEATH

[Per Press Association.! Wellington, September 12

Early this morning the police received information that a Chinaman had been murdered in his house in Adelaide Road. The door had been broken open. The man's head was severely battered, it is believed, by a party of roughs. BRUTAL AND PREMEDITATED ACT. KILLED WITH AN IRON BAR. ROBBERY AS THE MOTIVE. Later.

The murder of the Chinese named Wong Way Ching in Adelaide Road appears to have been brutal and premeditated. It is supposed the outrage took place early in the evening, as deceased's shop, which is generally open till 10.30 p.m., was observed to be closed about 8 o'clock. The shelves and the counter in the shop were spattered with blood, and an iron bar 20 inches long, 1$ inches wide, and fin. tbick, was found on the counter also covered with blood. The body was found in the kitchen at the back of the shop in a pool of blood, and had evidently been carried there after the act had been committed.

The head was considerably battered, and bore the trace of three heavy blows. One which was over the right eye itself, was, in Dr. Henry's opinion, sufficient to cause death. The till had been ransacked and blood-stained finger prints showed where the money had been scooped out. The indications are that the Chinese was knocked down with one blow, and that the door of the shop was then hastily closed by the perpetrator of the murder, who afterwards made his exit over the back fence and down the right-of-way leading on to the street.