Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-28
THE SANTIAGO MURDER.
The GOrOner's Inquest Results I'm
the Holding of Ah Lem.

the Holding of An Lem.
Coroner Meredith held an inquest last
night upon the body Of All DOCK, alias
Santiago, the old Chinaman who was
found dead on Wednesday night, in an
adobe hovel situated in an alley off Ala
media street, between Also and Marches
sault streets, and used by the Chinese as
a hospital. There was every indication
that the old man, who was a harmless
lunatic and we'll known character
throughout Chinatown. had been MUIR
dered, and the testimony was taken in
full by shorthand reporter, contrary to
the ususl custom heretofore in vogue,
and by this means the proceedings were
considerably expedited.
The first witness examined was Chas.
Miller, white man. who occupied the
house adjoining the hospital. He testi-
fed that on the night in question, about
10 80 O'Clock, he heard dispute going
on in the room occupied by the de-
ceased and three other more or less
crazy Cinnamon, and, after little while,
the row seemed to stop. After listening
intently for a few minutes he thought he
heard groans proceeding from the room,
and, taking lamp in his hand, he went
to the door of the Chinese hospital to in
vestigate. As he opened it from the out
side little Chinaman named All Lem,
and another, whose name could not be
ascertained, jumped out and rushed past
him, down the alley on to Alameda
street. On entering the hovel he was
Mortified to find Santiago lying upon the
floor, with his head propped up against
the wall, dead, though the body was still
warm. Two ugly wounds on the
left side of the face and be-
hind the ear, from which the blood
still flowed, indicated the cause of his
death; and close by was found the long
handle of spade, with fragment OF
iron at one end of it, with which the
bloody deed had evidently been COM
mitted. From the surroundings, and the
fact that the room was in perfect dark
ness at the time of the murder, it ap-
peared as though old Santiago and his
companions had quarreled, and that the
former had risen from his rude mating
couch only to be felled b., blows from
the deadly weapon in the hands OF one
of his opponents.
John Wesley, a colored man who
lived in the alley, testified that he saw
Miller 60 over to the hospital, and the
two Cinnamon rush out past him. See
ing that Ah Lem, the little Chinaman,
was covered with blood, he ran after
him, and, meeting Officer Sheets, on AL
ameda street, informed him that some
thing was wrong, and pointed Lem out
to him as the guilty party; whereupon
the officer placed the Chinaman under
arreet, and all three returned to the alley
and were notified of the murder by Mil
Ter.
Officer Sheets corroborated this testi-
mony, and DR.. MCGOWAN, who held an
autopsy upon the body of the deceased,
was examined. 1t was found on ex-
aminiDg the corpse that the ligaments in
the hollow of the left knee and elbow had
been cut with some sharp instrument,
and that the arteries had been severed at
the same time, 30 that the old man must
have bled to death before the other
wounds about his face and head had been
inflicted with the other and blunter
instrument.
All Oak and All Lem, the two Juvenile
companions of the deceased, were ex-
amined through an interpreter, but both
denied all knowledge of the affair.
On hearing the facts as stated above,
the jury, after brief delberation, ro-
turned a verdict to the effect that the
deceased, who was 60 years of age, a
native of China, came to his death on
the 26th inst. from injuries inflicted by
some instrument in the hands of All
Lem.
The supposed murderer and All Oak,
the witness to the deed, were remanded
to the City Jail pending the formers ex-
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