Chinese Woman Murdered While On Honeymoon

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 454, 8 September 1928, Page 11

Chinese Woman Murdered While On Honeymoon

Lakeland Tragedy

CUMBERLAND MYSTERY

a dramatic discovery was made m the beautiful English lake district of Cumberland. In the midst t charming surroundings, her cushioned on the bracken Ld heather in a natural rock gartL a young and pretty Chinese woman named Wai She-ung Yi y iao , was found dead.

ItTER husband, a Chinese named gil ciiung Yi Miao, stated to be a ■ tourist from New York, has been arI rested and charged with the wilful [murder of his wife. He was reImanded. j it Grange, where the two were | Staying, the body was accidentally I discovered by villagers, lying between I two boulders, on the top of a rocky I jjjjoi] forming a natural rock garden lof bracken, fern and heather. Clothing Torn i The body was lying on its back != with the legs slightly drawn up. The | clothing and underclothing were torn | a nd disarranged. There was no sign | of a struggle. She-ung had apparently f been sitting on top of a rocky knoll, : just above the steep fall that leads down to the river Derwent. The body had apparently fallen back between the boulders. On the third finger of the left hand were signs of a ring having been torn oft. A window-blind cord was knotted round the neck four times, deep into the flesh, and the face was blue and distorted. She-ung had been dead some hours, tier body lying close to a footpath, vbich is a favourite walk over the noIL An umbrella was stuck in the round between the arm and the body. The woman and her husband bad been staying at a boarding-house at Borrowdale Gate. Chung Yi Maio, the husband of the dead woman, was in bed when he was arrested on suspicion. At the inquest Miss Grossley, the proprietress of Borrowdale Gate, said • the couple, who she understood were on their honeymoon, went out arm-in-arm in the afternoon. The husband returned alone. 1 Police-Inspector Graham, of Keswick, describing the discovery of the body, said three cords were fastened tightly round her neck, two being win-dow-blind cords. The passpiorts produced were in the possession of the husband, and showed they had come from New York. They had no knowledge at present of the woman’s home address. The couple had been flouring, and they seemed to be in good circumstances, particularly the woman. The man was in custody on smspicion, but had not been charged yet.. After the inquest, Chung Yi Miao was charged, and when Deputy-Chief Constable Barron asked for a remand, Miao, in halting English, said he winted his wife’s relatives and friends present at the trill. Brother in Portugal He asked if he might have a lawyer and a Chinese officer?, and also his brother—now in Portugal— present. He would also like to have other triends and relatives present and satisfy both sides. • o? 0 womau ’ k® sjrid, had a grandfather and grandmother in Hongkong, and he could, get the addresses trom his wife’s suitjease. ,• « Mlao added fftat he had friends land W old£ ’ b u£ had none in EngHe was informed that he could have a turther remand, later, and would be every assistance. The inquest was adjourned.