[1] Kyeburn would be flung into national and international infamy at the beginning of the 1880s when long-time resident Mary Young was murdered on 3 August 1880.
Young died from the injuries that were inflicted on her with large stones from her garden before any definite culprit could be found.
Despite the lack of evidence, a lengthy trial would find a Chinese man by the name of Ah Lee guilty.
He was a miner who had only been in the area for a short period of time and was indicted based on largely circumstantial evidence.
Although he was convicted and executed, a lot of people believed that Lee was not guilty, after many fallacies in the prosecution came to light, including the fact that the interpreter who the police used did not fully understand the type of Chinese.