Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-10
QUEUES MUST GO.
Five Cinnamon RsCsiysu at the New
Jersey Stale Prison.
The Monaghan Who Was Stabbed Sixty
Times NO Mercy Shown the
Heather,


Cox, of Paterson, arrived at the State
prison at IL o'clock this morning with
five Cinnamon. They were marched
lock step to the dressing room an
their queues were removed by priS-
oner who acts as barber. Moy Sam kee
asked Keeper L2verty to allow their
queues to remain on. The keeper ex-
planned that he was compelled to cut
them OIL. They then quietly submitted
with tears in their eyes. They were
dressed all in prison suits, one side of
which are red and the other side blue.
They were then assigned To cells. They
are well behaved.
Story Of the Crime.
ON Sunday, May -, last, five China.
men named MOy Sam kee, MOy Tung
Len, Moy Dock, Moy Jung Lee and
Moy Quiug, attacked Lung POy, a fell
low. COuutryman, in Paterson, and
stabbed him about sixty times. The
cause Of the attack was the fact that
Lung Poy had reduced the price of
Washing and ironing. The five asSlil-
ants were arrested shortly a(terward,
and on the LIST of June they were ar
ralgued in court and admitted to bail.
4 week later they were again Brought
into court, when Prosecutor Stevenson
obtained pOStpOnement OF the cEe
for two weeks on the ground that the
Moys had scared Lung POy out oftOwn
by threatening to kill him. Lung Poy
was subsequently arrested and sent 10
iail as a witness. On the 22d the trial
took place without jury. The court
reserved its decision in the case, and
the five Cinnamon were sent TO the
County Jail.
Sentenced.
Aiter listening TO an appeal for mercy
from eX-Judge BarkalOw, the counsel
for the Cinnamon, Judge Woodruff call
ed up the Cinnamon and sentenced each
to the payment of fine of 500 aud
costs, reserviug the right in each case to
change the sentence to confinement in
State prison i'm case the fines are no.
paid within thirty days. The only one
of the accused VINO understood English
sufficiently to understand what the
Court was saying was AlOy sam kee,
and he did not seem worried over the
sentence. Looks of establishment, how
ever, overs bread tue faces of all of them
when the ruuStaOles marched them OIL
to jail. Ga July ~, Mr.. BarkalOw APP
peared in court aid made an appeal tor
mercy in f.vOr Of the convicted China
men. He asked the Court to lessen the
tine. He sid that it was evident that
the convicted had no idea Of seriously
injuring Lung POy; the Chinese would
resort 10 the Use of weapon where
persons of other races would not 10 so.
Mr.. BarSalOw urged another point
The possession of queue Insured posi-
ton and respeCtability in China, and
no Chinaman could return TO his n~tive
country without queue unless he re-
turned as vagabOnd and an OutcaSl
i'm case the court sent the accused TO
State prison the rules of that institution
would require the cutting off their hair
this would be equal to banihment, and
the court certainly did no. intend to
iuflict so severe a punishment. Mr..
BarkalOw urged the court to reduce the
fine to 500 and costs, or, if the court
should decide Oh further imprisonment,
to sentence the convicted to the county
Jail, where they could S;.ve their queues.
The court said that the administration
of Justice ought not to pay any atten-
ton TO peculiar notions which people
m ght entertain; ifpersons came here
from China or from Pny other country
they would have to put up with the
laws and regulations of this couatry.
The court refused to make any change
in the sentence.
The QGeUes Must 60.
At the expiration of the thirty days
given to the Cinnamon to ply their
fines in they were again brought into
court. Mr.. FINELY made an appeal of
mercy in their behalf, and presented a
a petition signed by Rev. DR.. Shaw and
a number of others. The judge then
arraigned the Cinnamon for sentence
and sentenced each to one year in the
state Prison and the costs of the prose-
cution. Sudge Woodruff, in passing
sentence, said that the prisoners had
been convicted of assaulting a man
whom they had stabbed in fifty or
sixty places. There was no doubt
whatever of the guilt Of the prisoners,
and in addition to this they had been
guilty of manifest perjury by going on
the stand and testifying to falsehood.
Despite these facts a clergyman and
respectable manu- facturers appeared be-
fore the Court by petition and appealed
for mercy. The prisoners had, how
ever, been given all the mercy they
were entitled to. The Cinnamon We're