Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-14
a CHINESE VENDETTA.

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The Terrible Oath Of Revenge Taken by
Two Murdered Fathers Sons.
The vendetta seems TO be carried
out in Asia as well as in Corsica, judg-
ing from the following article taken
from a Chinese exchange:
Whether the particulars which we
are now about to give are strictly cor
rect or not is more than we can say,
but we are content to believe that
there Is nothing Improbable in the
story The recognized eccentricity OF
Chinese customs is in itself excuse
enough for giving entire credence to
the singular narrative, the details of
which come to us from a reliable
source and are as follows:
On the night of Nov. 2, 1886. a Chinese
carpenter employed at Mr.. Brand'ssugar
plantation, Shoal Bay, was murdered
in his hut Information was at once
given to the police, who proceeded to
Shoal Bay, took up what appeared to
be the tracks of the murderer, followed
them to the jungle, coming toward
Palmerston, and there lost them. In
course of time the search was entirely
abandoned as fruitless, the last act be-
ing the offer of one hundred pounds
for information that would lead to the
capture of the murderer The murder
itself was a most determined one. An
examination of the body revealed bull
let wounds and knife gashes enough to
have killed half dozen men. At the
back of the left shoulder there was a
bullet wound bearing inward toward
the spine; there was a severe stab on
the back of the right shoulder; there
was terrible incised wound behind the
collar bone which severed several veins;
there was an incised wound and bullet
wound combined at the end of the
heart on the right side leach wound
cutting the liver) there was bullet
wound through the heart, the bullet
having gone through the chest, and
there was another stab wound through
the heart.
From the nature Of the mans
wounds, however, two things were in
ferred; first, that the murder was per
petrated by more than one person, and,
second, that there was fiendish desire
on the part of the murderers to make
sure of All You's death. Now comes
the sequel. Some years previous to the
Shoal Bay crime being committed a
certain Chinainan conducted IL pirating
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day while taking out small boat
ing party under cover of respectability,
this. pirate foulIy robbed and then muir
dered the unsuspecting occupants of
the boat, and then cleared from the
neighborhood The friends and rela-
atives of the murdered persons searched
the coast high and low for traces oft he
freebooter, but in vain. In the midst
of their grief at the bereavement under
such circumstances, two who had each
lost father registered terrible oath
to be revenged on the pirate. Accord
ingly they pursued inquiries with un-
broken diligence, and at last learned
that the man they were in quest of had
gone to, Port Darwin, in Australia.
Thither they followed him, and in
the quiet of that night at Shoal bay, in
1886, the life of All You was taken in
fulfillment of the vow of vengeance
which had been recorded against him
years before on the coast of China. The
story is completed when we tell that the
murderers, after leaving the plantation,
returned to Palmerston and remained
in Chinatown until q boat arrived from
south, in which they went back to their
native land. Such is the narrative as
we obtained it.