Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19
STILL IN CUSTODY.
The Chinaman Arrested for the Braden
Murder to Be Examined Tomorrow.

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Murder to BE Examined Tomorrow.
tits now over a week since John Braden
received his death wound at the hand OF q
Chinaman, said to go by the name OF All
Chez, in the alley back of West Broadway.
On Tuesday night a Chinaman who was
thought to be the man wanted was ar.
rested, and has been detained on suspi-
cion in jail since then. The arrest was
made by virtue Of the coroner's warrant,
and II he had been a white man would
have had his examination within twenty
four hours. Either hat or the examina-
ton would have been continued every day
until it could be held. But being only q
C~hinaDan, ignorant OF the laws OF the
country he is in, and no one being suff-
| GENTLY interested in his case to demand
his examination, he has remained without
any one bothering himself about the
matter, deprived OF the visits OF his coun-
trymen.
He gives his name as All Hen. Among
the articles found on his person when in
generated " ere bills of exchange from a
bank here to d man iu Hong Kong for $21
and - registered letter receipt, both to
Quong Hong Chung, and over $50 in cash,
There is no doubt that All Chez is the
name OF the man supposed to have com
mitted the deed in the alley. II the papers
belong TO this Ia in Jail, and it ought not
to be difficult to identify kim On the part
OF the bank people,, then he is not All Chee.
People who have visited the Jail to see the
| prisoner are divided in opinion as to his
identity.
There is a certain ludicrous feature con.
Dected with The Identification in most in.
stances. People have gone up to the jail
to look at the man in custody and have
been quite positive that he is the man who
was IN the habit OF cutting wood there"
AS though it were utterly impossible f.'
more than one Chinaman to have been So
engaged all along up to the time
OF the murder. A particular man
known as All Chez might nave been cutting
wood there for months, but that ia no
proof that he was at about 4 o'clock on
the afternoon OF the Sthinst. Unless some
one can swear to the identity of the China
man who was at the spotimmediately before
the murder on the day of the murder, iden-
LITIGATION OF a nan who had been there
every day for months before is only circum-
stantial evidence and no proof that he is
the man wanted. The fact that so many
people have been to see the manin custody,
who were in the habit of passing the spot
every day, and who say that the man IN
custody is not the man wanted, while otk.
ers are equally positive he Is. goes ! o show
that more than one Chinaman was en-
ployeG cutting wood there at different
times.
All Hen will be examined tomorrow
probably before j Justice Engel, and a COM
plant will be sworn out charging him will
the deed in question. The testimony ellie
tied at the coroner's inquest will be pro
duced and witnesses examined. It is saiC
that six witnesses will be produced wht
saw the occurrence who were not procura
bile at the ~coroner's inquest. 1t is NOR
than likely that a different version OF tn
affair will then be given to that which it is ri
mored was given at the coroner's inquest