Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-09
RA1LRoAp COMMISSIONERS.
Looking for His wife.

The Vallejo Chronicle of the eth inst. has
the following: when the Southern
Pacific train arrived at Vallejo Junction
this morning one of the passengers to get
off thereat was All Cong tall, good
looking representative of China, versed in
the English language above the average of
his race Gong is from the Z. S. S. Ranger,
and came to this city in search of Lis wife,
or rather to get information by which he
could trace up her whereabouts. When he
came aboard the Julia he was recognized as
the husband of the woman who few
weeks ago was taken from Chinese wash
house in this city by some officers to Sac
ramento, on the pretext that she was
wanted on charge of having stolen some
iewelry and other articles, but who, every
body is forced to believe, was kidnapped,
the trumped up charge against her being
part of the plot. Gong was at sea on the
Ranger and was notified by mail of what
had trans PRED, and of the fact that his
life companion had been spirited away,
and by him likely never more to be seen.
Gong told his story to the officers on board,
who had a great fancy for him. They
made up a purse for him, gave him
months leave of absence, and instructed
him to secure all necessary aid to find his
wife. Gong arrived in San Diego on the
9th, aid came direct to Vallejo. He has
not much hope of finding her, but would
like to meet the Chinaman who took her
away. When he left here on the Ranger
he gave his wife $780, besides jewelry, ETC.,
and the loss of this also he mourns.
Some of the Sacramento Cinnamon, not
particularly interested in the case, have
stated relative to this woman that if she
was stolen she was a party to the theft, in
timating that she was willing to leave her
husband, All Gong. She may, of course,
have been inundated before she went into
Court, and made to promise to remain here;
but after the case had been examined, re-
sulting in her being discharged Rev. Mr.
Masters, of the San Francisco Mission, ex-
planned to her that she could go with who
ever she desired, and offered TO take her
back with him to Vallejo that afternoon,
but she declined, saying that she would
stay with her uncle or brother-in-law and
return to Vallejo next morning. She went
away, apparently of her own free will, with
the Chinaman claiming TO be her relative.
She disappeared very peculiarly directly
afterwards, however, and when her friends
from Vallejo endeavored to find her by
means of habeas corpus, they were I'M
successful. 1t was subsequently reported
that she had been taken out of the State.
There is a reward of $500 by All Gong's
friends for her recovery. The steps taken
TO get her here from Vallejo were the same
as had been adopted in scores of cases pre-
viously, when it was proposed by the
Celestial "toughs" to steal a woman. II
does not seem likely, if she was willing to
be stolen, that she would have left her
clothing, jewelry, and other articles Of
value, easily taken with her, at her home
in Vallejo when she came away.
Officer Glennon came up from San Fran
cisco last evening, accompanied by All
Gong, on search fer the latter's wife, hay
ing habeas corpus papers from the Superior
Court of San Francisco for her appearance
before that tribunal next Saturday. The
officer must have got some intimation as to
her whereabouts after his arrival here, as
he leaves with Gong for San Jose this
morning.