http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0316070
data provider: CONTENTdm
alternative: [New Westminster Daily News]
issued: 2016-06-14
issued: 1914-05-21
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nwdn/items/1.0316070/source.json
format: application/pdf
note: ���m**-m-?m��m*m ii�� *i -.ijm mu jmmaama **nm a M��uJ& Volume 9, Numb *? d. NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 21,1914. Price Five Cents, KONG CONRAD to ti;; jra Chinaman Testifies He Killed Mrs. Millard and Burned Her Body. Stated She Attacked Him With Knife Following Dispute���Self Defence Claimed by Prisoner. OREGON GOVERNOR CLOSES FRIARS CLUB Salem, Ore., May BO.1*���Governor Oswald West announced tonight that a detachment of tho Oregon stato militia will be sent to Milwaukee Thursday to close the Friers club and that lhe place will be kept closed until tin- end of his administration. The governor's proposed action Is based, he declared, upon the fact that two girls, aged respectively 15 and 17, were taken from th�� Kriura club last -night, after they had been plied with I liquor by men. The arrests were ' made by u woman police officer from Portland. Tho Friers club was closed by militiamen acting on the governor's order a few weeks a,--;o, but the troops were withdrawn after three days. AMERICAN fLEET PEACE CONFERENCE SOON TO WITHDRAW NOW UNDER WAY United States Preparing to Order Battleships from Vera Cruz. The most sei;s.itloiidl tc.-tlnunv yet Riven ln the trial of Jack Kong for j ihe murder of Mrs. Millard was given j yrttiterday, and that by tbe prisoner himself. Kong entered the witness box and gave the following extraordinary version of tho ghastly tragedy. He said Mrs. Millard quarrelled with him over spoiling the mush and he said he had no time to make more. Sho then threatened to cut his ear ! iff with a knlfo if he did not make j more. Sho then made foi him with a knife and he picked up a chair In self-' ib-fence.' They had a scuff lo and Mrs. | Millard dropped tbe knife. She slipped -ind struck her teinpl>- on tbe corner | of the chair. He threw cold water1 over ber '���-. order to revive her but without avail. lie then felt her pulse and It did not seem to be beating, Thin he p.oceeded to dismember thi body and destroy all evidence by b…
note: ' la,,p

The New Westminster News
type: i.500.00
has type: Newspapers
spatial: New Westminster (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0316070
language: English
lat: 49.206667
long: -122.910556
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New Westminster, B.C. : The Daily News Publishing Company, Limited
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/
is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text

…
…: 11.00