Finger Prints
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Hung
Tai Shek
SUVA, June 5.
THE Chinese labourer, Tai Shek, found guilty of the murder of Mr. and Mrs.
T. Allen, at Ocean Island on April 26, 1949, was hanged in Suva gaol on May 31. An appeal made against the sentence on the ground that new evidence was available was dismissed.
This case is notable in criminal history because no motive for the murder was ever discovered: the Chinese was con victed on fingerprint evidence alone. The bodies of Mr. Allen (who was a technician employed by the Phosphate Commission) and his wife were found in their bunga low one morning. Dectectives from Bris bane finger-printed the whole community and pinned the crime on Tai Shek.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Des.
Sullivan at the Moresby Hospital on May 16.