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i • i j me ouuBtr.- i -j KILLS CHINAMAN.1 In Order to Call Attention to the Yellow Peril in Australia.,Lionel Terry, an Englishman, said to be well known In artistic and literary circles In Ixmdon. and to have been once an officer In the Blues, has confessed to shooting a Chinaman In the streets of Wellington. New Zea* ’ land, in order to call attention to the | ‘‘yellow peril.”Kum Young, a feeble old Chinaman, was walking down Haining street, In j (he Chinese quarter of Wellington. I when Terry fired two shots from the 1 opposite side of the street, killing the j old man instantaneously. A little later Terry walked Into a police station and asked for the superior officer. When told he was out, he said he would call In the morning.Terry next went to his hotel, sat half an hour in the smoking room.dined with a friend, and retired at It. In the morning he chatted with the other guests over breakfast, and after writing some letters called on a bookseller to ask how his pamphlet. “The Shadow of the Empire’'—a publication denouncing alien immigration—was selling.From there he went to the police station, and. laying a five-chambered revolver before the Sergeant, remarked: “I am the man who shot theChinee last night.” Then, producing a copy of his pamphlet, he said: 'ifyou read that you will understand the matter.” He was taken into custody, and at the inquest on the Chinaman a verdict of “murder” was returned against him.I-ord Plunket, the Governor, on hearing dl the affair, sent the policethe following letter, signed by Terry: Sir: Having spent several yearsIn various portions of the British Empire inquiring into alien immigration, and being convinced of the evil consequences arising therefrom. I have decided to bring the matter before the public eye in a manner which will compel attention. To make this decision perfectly plain I have this evening put a Chinaman to death.”Terry is a good-looking man. soldierly in bearing, approaching middle age. He is a native of Kent, is said to be well connected, and to have been educated at Eton and Oxford.He was in the mounted police atBulawayo at the time of the Jameson raid, and has traveled a great deal in Canada, the West Indies and the United States. His great bobby waa denouncing the yellow peril, which he did whenever he could find an audience.—London Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Idaville Observer
Idaville, Indiana, US
Fri, Apr 13, 1906
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