![]() ![]() ![]() This photo of Terry was published in his book of verse The shadow in 1904. Joe Kum Yung was killed by Lionel Terry, a young Englishman who wanted to draw. Before his confinement in mental hospitals for the racial killing of an elderly Chinese man in 1905, Lionel Terry was a marathon walker people who met him invariably commented on his magnificent physique. Edward Lionel Terry was born at Sandwich, Kent, England, on 6 January 1873. 222 pages with illustrations.Īll books are sent free by courier postage within New Zealand. This biography, written by Frank Tod, was first published in the. This did not prevent some New Zealanders circulating a petition for mitigation of his sentence, although the local Chinese community circulated a counter-petition in response. ![]() He was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Over the next 47 years Terry was imprisoned in Christchurch's Sunnyside, Dunedin's Seacliff Lunatic Asylum and Lyttelton Prison. Originally, he was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life incarceration within New Zealand psychiatric institutions. The New Zealand Supreme Court convicted him of murder on 21 November 1905. Jacket is quite worn, rubbed and chipped.Įdward Lionel Terry (1873 20 August 1952) was an English white supremacist and murderer, incarcerated in psychiatric institutions after murdering a Chinese immigrant, Joe Kum Yung, in Wellington, New Zealand in 1905. Publisher: Dunedin : Otago Foundation Books, 1977. ![]()
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