CHINAMAN SHOT DOWN IN WELLINGTON.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7935, 26 September 1905, Page 2

CHINAMAN SHOT DOWN IN WELLINGTON.

DEED COMMITTED IN A STREET. A CRANK ON ''YELLOW PERIL" FIRED SHOTS. (Pet Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 25. An old Chinaman, Joe Kum Yung, living in Haining-street, had gone lo another house [or some peanuts on Sunday night, and on lvis way back some man fired two shots at him. Yung was found with a bullet in the back of his head, and though medical aid was produced, died in the hospital at 10 o'clock. There were ilt'iW persons ija the sHreai|, ami apparently only two saw the assailent One was a 'Chinamen, who, trom the other side of the street, saw the. shot fired, and followed the man, whom he describes as> a t all man, wearing a three-quarter drab-coloured coat, till he lost him in the main thoroughfare. The other was a European, who was in Taranaki-street, and saw a man hurrying away. Yung was nearly seventy, and had been in the colony from 25 to 30 years, but in Wellington only six months. He was a semi-invalid, having broken a leg and suffered other injuries while natAng in<<fc'e'Stland.. Hi» lejioweountrymen were sif.iscribiug to send him back to China, i , . A man, who gave the name of Lionel Terry, gave himself lip at the police station at 1J.20 this morning us the murderer of the Chinaman. Terry, during his stay.in Wellington, impressed all he met with his wide acquaintance with men and things. His opinion on aliens were very strong, and lie recently issued a pamphlet of protest on the "Yellow Peril," in which he was particularly vehement.' Ne thing unusual ,vas noticed about Tcrr.v last night or this morning, at ibe Club Hotel, where he was staying. A'fic breakfast,' he wrote letters, went out, and hti.ded himself over to the police, Lining them a revolver, two chambers of which had iuen discharged, and also a copy of his plvamplilet, which lie said would explain things. He is a man of superior education, about 36 years of age, of splendid physique, ant was on a walking tour through the colony. He was brought before the Police Court this morning and remanded. A letter has been received by the Governor which purported to have been written by Terry. It js in effect as follows That in order to make a protest against alien immigration he (the writer) deemed it m,,? 11 i? • Iml t0 death a Chinaman in Hawing Street this evening. It is believed the letter was written alter the act. Teriy was in the Horse Guards. lie sod out, and joined the Buliiwayo police, and afterwards went through the Matabele war and spent some time in . America and Canada. Ho Ined same time by* literary and- artistic work. His pamphlet, "The Shado v is a violent appeal to the Enipiie to rise and throw ofl the yellow evil awl aliens generally. It also > a ' ns J!" appeal 4o the King to save the Empire. H c first came to the colony about two years ago.

(A long Press Association message of To rvT last iilglvt giving details ? it? 1 C ?/w' Hc was educatt-d <U Lton and Oxford, served in the An ;! ler y. then two and a - Af.t s , l ". t e R oyal Horse Guards. don if i WaS a " ar( ' isl in 'London, and later went out to South M ™n> W f Cre hcscrvwli " ll'c moimtfolc °. ami went through the Malabcle war. Afterwards he went to Canada where,he was secretary of a Labour Union. Terry had been on ■survey work i„ Monganui ,$h jct fineton Cei iV y . walked overland to Wellington It 1S narrated that he did li'nitn f frU r it ve K etal >lCS ill Welain( A, r r ° f the Jloll golian a . A ? far as can be learned hj«» imd ,w

I MOTIVE Foil CHIME, PC n-, rrcss Association.) WfcLLi.N'UTOX, Sept 'K, ,C a '® Ucr sort' to tiro Govern or lilt ur'" ac ® ,Bw| l n,a » j >«* Uirowii Th« lH • moUvc of llis Iha letter i s as follows '•To the Governor 0 f New Zbalaml-hii,-llavmg. spent, several'years in! \ arious portions oi the British Emplre, liujmri'ng into tho subject of results arising' from alien immigration, ami being convinced of the evil consequences 'arising! therefrom, I have decided io hring lho maUor , )R _ i < l!kh'°wiii pubhc f yc , in a ma:a ner, Much H ill compel the attention it demands. I will not under ~nv consideration whatever allow m.v' rights and those of m.v brother Tlr'ituns to be jeopardised by alien invaders, ami to make this perfectly plain 1 have tins (yvt/niivtf' put a, Chimumm to ■death in the OhinoKi' quarter ol' this cit.v, known as Jiaiuirrg Rtm't.—T remain, Lionel 'furry, a British subject."