Tonkinese Barber
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Murdered
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, Nov. 23.
ONE evening recently a cry of “Help” from a small shop on Noumea’is market place led a native Custom house employee to investigate. He broke in and found the shopkeeper, an old and well-esteemed Tonkinese trader and barber named Vu Ngoc Tuan (he has more than once cut your correspondent’s hair), lying in a pool of blood, with a long knife sticking out of his back. Vu Ngoc Tuan died later in hospital.
Two youths were later arrested; they admitted that their motive had been robbery, and one, Paul Jean, confessed to the murder.