NG Native Charged

But Later Withdrawn NG Native Charged With Double-Murder

A NATIVE who was already serving a 12 years sentence for a sex offence when a double murder was committed in Rabaul in January, 1957, was arrested and charged with the crime, end of July. A fortnight later, the charges were dropped.

He is Yambon, 27, a native of the Morobe District, who at the time was serving his sentence in Rabaul. He subsequently was re moved to a mainland prison.

On January 12, 1957, the slashed and battered bodies of Carole Wright, 17, Australian, and Daniel Ng, 23, Chinese, were found in scrub on the outskirts of Rabaul.

In the previous May, another young couple had been battered to death on Rabaul Golf Course; a part-European was charged and convicted, but later won an appeal to the Australian High court.

As a result of these two unsolved double-murders, Rabaul residents experienced a period of jitters, and a rating off a visiting warship, who wandered into a Rabaul home one night when apparently drunk, was shot dead by the householder.

Yambon appeared before the Magistrate’s Court in Rabaul on August 11.

There, police asked leave to with dr a w the two charges against Yambon.

They gave no reasons for the action.