Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-18
A suspected Bankers Trial.
From the Idaho City World.


Quite row recently occurred among the Chi
nese residents of our city, arising from the
'hustmg of the Chinese bank of deposits be-
longing to the See Yup company. 1t appears
that All Chez, Fee Wood, and several other
prominent Cinnamon were interested as officers,
or as directors in the savings or accommodation
bank alluded to, and that Zee Wood was "boss"
officer, or at least by virtue of his position, was
peculiarly trusted with duties of a responsible
nature connected with the care, safe.keepinr
and disbursement of the funds of the institn-
ton, and that under him was a bookkeeper who
was intrusted with the delicate and important
duties pertaining to that position. About n
week ago il was discovered that something was
rotten in China, or at least in the bank, and up-
on investigation of the safe, etc, several
thousand dollars of the funds were miss
ing. The greatest excitement prevailed.
and elimination and recrimination among
our Oriental inhabitants was the order
OF the day. Zee Wood was pounced upon
as the guilty party and his life demanded in
satisfaction of the abuse of the trust reposed in
his honor and integrity. The bookkeeper was
closely questioned, and his accounts underwent
a careful scrutiny, but nothing duplicating Zee
WOOD could be discovered. Finally the excited
Shlnane9 agreed that il Zee Wood would pun &c
himself Of suspicion, the matter would rest, Ac-
cordingly, one day last week, everything being
prepared before hand, a delegation waited on
our worthy sheriff, Dryde McCntock, and in.
formed him that certain exercises were to be
gone through with at the Chinese graveyard, and
that they desired him to be on hand, and to look
out and see who shot first" Dryde of course
''looked ont,p and before he would allow
any Chinaman TO go TO the place indicated
carefully searched those who were 10 accom-.
pany him, and relieved them of their ar.
tillery and pruning knives Nearly all the
angry Celestials remained a respectful distance,
and Zee Wood and two or three of his accuser
"A flta ali
the graves Of defunct Mongolians were found
III up with WAX tapers aud adorned with slips
OF paper. The oath Of innocence, which was
imprinted in Chinese characters on piece OF
paper, was then spread upon grave and fasten.
ed down with sticks, and Zee Wood. pros.
trafing himself according 10 the religious be.
lief, went Though all manner of genuflectons
signs and tokens, and then Selling a white roos.
ter, provided for the occasion, he took cleayer
and severed its head from the body. The cere.
mony through WITH Sheriff McClintock, by re.
quest, dug hole and deposited therein the
dead rooster, the instrument used to cut off lis
head, and paper on which was written
the oath OF exculpaton, which were
then covered with dirt or buried. Dryde
says he had TO perform the duties Of sexton,
as not one Of the Cinnamon would touch the
dead chicken or assist in the burial of 1t. This
ceremony is said TO be one Of a very solemn
nature with the Chinese but il appears that IN
this instance II has not satisfied them. Some Of
them openly declare that they believe Fee Wood
has sworn falsely and one remarked, "me think
he die belly soon" We are Informed that some
OF the most obstreperous of his countrymen are
making up a pony purse 10 pay some scoundrel
to assassnate Fee Wood, but whether il is true
Or not, we can't say Should 1t be DONE the
hired assassin would probably be summarily
deait with, regardless Of the formalities of the
lsw, as Fee Wood is one Of the leading China
nsn y this camp, aud his own friends would
probably not abide the laws delay. We don't
nuoW whether the decapitated chicken has been
ono, some OF the irreverent bows ara losers hv
not being aware of the ceremonies