Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-19
THE wICKERsHAM MURDERER.
Ang Tai Duck Attempts to Starve Him.



Soon after the City of New York ar
| rived in San Francisco from Hongkong and
| Yokohama, Captain Searle was interviewed
| by Detective Glennon regarding Ang Tai
Duck, the fugitive murderer of Jesse
Wickersham and his wife. Captain Searle
stated that the Mongol and all his effects
were surrendered TO him by the japanese
| officials at Yokohama. and he in turn sur
| rendered Duck to the British authorities at
| Hongkong. After the steamer left Yoke
| hama the murderer attempted to siarve
himself to death, and he positively refused
| TO take any food. As last resource, and
to prevent him from killing himself, Duck
| was informed that he was only to be taken
10 Hongkong. When the heather was
| told that he was not to be returned to Cali
| fornia he made up for the time he lost in
| starving himself, and when the other pas
sengers saw him, eating they feared a
| famine, as his appetite appeared to be in
| satiable At Hongkong Duck was taken in
charge by the British authorities, to be de-
tanned until the arrival of Detective Cox
and S. p. Weston, who are armed with the
necessary requistion papers for his return
| here. Captain Searle was informed Just
before leaving Hongkong that the murderer
! was seeking to starve himself to death in
| the Jail. and it is feared that he may thus
succeed in defeating the ends of justice.
PARTICULARS OF HIS ARREST.
The China Mda of Nlrch 18th gives the
! following details of the arrest of the MUIR
derer
Inspector Cradock, on the arrival of the
City of New York this forenoon. arrested q
Chinaman named Ang Tai Duck, who is
accused of the murder of CAPTAIN Wicker
sham and his wife in the United States
The case is one which has created some
sensation in the States, and the details are
certainly OF horifying nature. The per-
petrator of the dastardly deed was a cook
in the service of Captain Wickersham, and
the allegation is that he, in the Captains
| absence, bound and outraged his wife and
| then shot her, completing his villainy by
shooting the Captain, on his return. The
| murderer escaped to San Francisco, and
was supposed to have taken ship there for
Japan or Hongkong. On the details of the
horrible crime reaching the capital of the
West, the Chinese in that city subscribed
$1,000 to aid in the capture of the criminal.
The news was cabled to Japan, and on the
arrival OF the Rio de Janeiro at that port
Chlnaman answering to the description
given was arrested on board and brought
before the authorities in Japan. But as no
extradltion treaty exists between Japan
and America, no steps could be taken to
secure the person of the prisoner,
who was, therefore, at liberty to
remain in Japan and defy the American
authorities. The prisoner, however, was
unacquainted with the International law,
and did not take advantage of his liberty
IN Japan. He obtained permission TO con-
tinue his voyage to Hongkong by the next
mail steamer, the City of New York, and
quite unwittingly thus rushed into the
arms of justice. For no sooner was he on
board the American steamer than he was
handcufled and confined in cabin till his
arrival at this port, where, as stated, he
was arrested by the British Government.
The arrest was made at the request of
Colonel Withers, Consul for the United
States in Hongkong who on receipt of the
information from his Government petition
ed the Magistracy in Hongkong to appre-
heId Ang Tai Duck, with view to his
extradition. The prisoner was brought
before Mr.. Mitchell-Innes at the conclusion
OF the Police Court business this morning,
and remanded till Monday. The photo
graph appended to the printed notice, offer
ing reward of $500 for the apprehension
of the murderer, certainly bears striking
resemblance 10 the man who is now in the
Hongkong Jail, although the prisoner now
looks emaciated and appears to be much
thinner than the original of the photo
graph.