Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-14
A GIRLS
A Beautiful Blonde Elopes With a
Chinaman.
San Franeleo Can, April 7th.

san Francico Cau, April 9TH.
Tuesday evening, at 5:35 o'clock,
upon the arrival Of the S Juth Pacific
Coast railway passengers from Santa
Cruz, q young woman of prepossess-
Ing appearance was met at the ferry
depot on this side by four Cinnamon,
who had q hack In waiting. The
young woman a neatly dressed In q
light suit, and wore q blue hat that
shsd as pretty a fscs as many C.uoas.
ians would like to possess, much
less Q pigtailed Mongolian. Catch.
Ing sight OF the Chinese
quartet, she, with bright eyes and
smiling but blushing face, ran for.
ward and was caught up in the arms
of n of them, IN intelligent and not
III. appearing fellow, who rapturously
impressed q half dozen kisses on the
upturned lips, after which she was In.
troduced to the other three. Smiles,
hand shaking and a good deal of talk
Ing followed, and the five presently
got into the hack and drove up town,
while the amsz ID bystanders of eau.
casion pursuasion relieved themselves
In words anything but complimentary
to the young womsn's taste.
WHO II BEAUTY WAS.
A reporters subss quent inquiries
brought out the fact that the girls
name was Sarah Burke, who, a short
since, Ia Santa Cruz, on account OF
her determination to marry q Chinese
laundrymsn named Wong Suey Wan,
aroused the virtuous indignation OF
the denizens of that place. So wrothy
became the people, and so evident
was their determination to use tar and
feather on the M~ongolisn that
that individual suddenly de.
camped, coming to this city
last Monday. The arrival Of Sarah
the following day showed the fact that
the two had an understanding. From
the ferry no trace of the ,ouple could
be found, and the reporter last night
began q search for them In Chinatown.
All the Chinese missions were visited,
but nothing, II was claimed, had been
heard Of them there, excepting at the
one under the charge OF Rev. Otis
Gibson. That gentleman said . few
days since an old Chinese woman had
called upon him to ASCERTAIN II he
would marry . Chinese relative to
. white girl. He refused, owing
to his opinion that the law forbade
such marriages. Since that time he
had heard nothing more in the matter,
andhe did mt know the name of the
old woman, nor where she lived. Hope.
less at finding further information In
this quarter, the police officers OF
Chinatown, prominent Chinese mer
chants, and the Mongolian criminal
element we're appealed to, all Of
whom were ignorant of anything con.
corning the couple.
THE GIRL IN HER ROOM.
Sergeant Birdsall, Corporal Avar
and Officer Travers finally succeeded
In locating them In a Chinese house O
i'll fame at No. 1913 Jackson street
and Officer Travers, with two repor
ters, about midnight, after an hour
search, found the girl In a bedroom OF
the fourth floor. She was alone a
the time, and appeared perfectly In
different to her horrible surroundir e.
the place reeking with noisome smells
tobacco smoke, opium fumes, and oc
cupied by Chinese courtesans, thieves
and every variety of criminals incident
to Chinatown. , The room she oocu
pied had been fitted up with new
furniture, clean bedding, dimity our
tains, tables, chairs and what not,
presenting . great contrast to the re
mAinder Of the floor. The girl SEEM
to be above seventeen years old, of 9
lovely form and As pretty q . picture
with large, bright brown eyes, shaded
BY long lashes and brown eyes. Hel
hair ID . wAvy black and her nos,
slightly r~etrousss, while behind hel
oleanly out lips shown now and ther
Q pearly set Of teeth. Her face wa
full and rounded, and the lines wer,
perfect and true. In answer to re
portorlal queries, she showed
woeful amount Of ignorance, hel
first words evidenoing Q lack o
education, while 1t was soon learned
that her experience In worldly mat,
ters wal extremely limited. She sale
her mother was dead, and that hel
father, Woodford Burke, and he
three brothers, lived In G%uerneville
Sonoms county. They had all oom'
out to this coast nine months ago
from Traverse, Michigan; since whiot
time she had worked out In severa
towns throughout the state. Som
five months ago she had made the 90
quaintanoe of Wong Suey, In SAINT
Cruz, and they had fallen In love, ant
she had come up here to marry him.
she LOVES WONG.
"Whst will your father think o
this2" said the reporter.
"He don't caro-, Just 80 / am mar
ried, and If they don't let me marry
I'll 20 to China anyway"
why don't you marry a whit
mani"
"Cause 1 don't want any white maj
Il don't like them"
"Are you married nowl"
"No. Minister promised to MARI.
u.s."
"Are you living with Wong now2
"No. l work for his uncle an,
aunt In the next room"
"Do yon smoke opium2"
"Yes, If ! want to-"
Glow many pipes can you smoke2
"TWo or three"
At this junoture the Chinaman
Wong Suey Wan, put In his appear
ance. He IL about 32 years of age
with thin lips, stained teeth, fla
nose, villainous small eyes, and look
like the last person ia the world eyel