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OTAGO.Suicide of a Chinaman. — A Chinaman, charged with 'murder, strangled himself a short time ago in the Milton (Tokomai riro) lock-up; the sucide being about as cool and determined a one as possible. A t>hort lime ago, the Commissioner of Police received information that (ion Chu, who was charged with having murdered Ching ang Yung, at Kiandru, New South Wales, in 1866, was believed to be in Otago, and a request for assistance towards securing him, with a view to his removal to New South Wa'es, for trial, was made. The information from Sydney and Melbourne was to this efftct ,ln April last Grou Chu was at the Dargo, where he called himself Wong ah Plug, lie was traced from the Dargo to One-Foot, thence to the Buskland, and thence to Melbourne, where he took passage for Otago (to go to Xuapeka), in the name of Chung ah Yee. Hints were also given as to the company in which G-on Chu would be found in the luapeka district. The police, after most careful inquiries, apprehended the deceased, as the "wanted" man; and the evidence given before Major Croker, E.M., was such that he remanded the man to New South Wales. Gon Chu was brought from Lawrence to Milton, on his was to Dunedin, to await the arrival of a New South Wales officer, with the warrant for his apprehension on the charge of murder ; and on Monday evening he was lodged iv the lock-up at Milton. There he was visited by the officer-in-charge each hulfhour; and yet he contrived, to strangle himtelf. Tho outer corner of the door of the cell did not fit quite closely to the upper part of the jamb. To that corner of the door Gon Chu fastened a small silk scarf, which he must have worn under his shirt, and, fastening the other end of the scarf round his neck, he sat down and strangled himself. Hawke's Bay Weekly Times , 9 September 1867, Page 221