Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-31
COULD NOT TALK ENGLISH.
AT LEAST BE coULD'T WHEN IT WAS
TO HIS INTEREST NOT TO.
A Tricky Heather Gets Badly BIuddIed
With the Assistance of
Attorney Jones.

The preliminary examination of All
Gong, the Chinese highlander, who is
under arrest for having murdered fellow
countryman in Chinatown, was resumed
before Judge Buckley yesterday
Nearly the entire day was consumed by
attorney Jones in his cross-ex examination of
All Tan, the defenses first witness. Tan
had testified that on the night of the killing
he was walking up Third street and had
Just reached |, when a large Chinaman
suddenly brushed past him and fred two
shots at another man in front of him, who
proved to be the deceased. 1.-THE man who
did the shooting" said the witness, was
not All Gong, the man under arrest"
The witness looked as serene and inno-
cent as newborn babe when he delivered
himself of this startling information.
MIR. Jones, for the prosecution, held a
whispered conversation with several re-
lahves of the murdered man, and then,
turning to the witness, said:
You are relative of the prisoner, are
you not ?"
instanter. He looked extremely worried
and finally, after much hemming and haw-
ing, he replied in the affirmative.
"Ah. thought So" said Mr.. Jones, with
an immense smile of satisfaction. He
then proceeded to harass that witness with
such length of questions that the poor
heather was soon soaked with perspira-
ton. The testimony, of course. was taken
through an Interpreter, and this was in the
witness favor, as it gave him time to ex-
change glances with his friends before
answering the questions. But finally, in
his excitement, he forgot himself and
answered one of Mr.. Jones' questions in
English before the interpreter had chance
to repeat the question.
"Ah ~ said Mr.. Jones, clapping his
hands, Il thought you could talk English
all along, and was waiting for you to give
yourself away. Now just go ahead, please,
and tell US ali about it in English, so we
can understand better"
The witness began to exhibit Fremont
tons of apoplexy, but was revived with
glass of water. mo can talk English"
said he in great confusion.
"Oh, yes, you can; you're talking it
now"
mo, no talk"
Eyes you did"
BY this time the witness discovered that
he had really been talking English, and to
remedy matters closed his mouth with a
smack, and only exhibited blank express
slonless countenance in response to all
subsequent questions in English.
Mr. Jones appealed to the Court, but the
latter's order only met with the same cold
stare
Finally the interpreter had to be called
into service again, and the examination
proceeded YEARLY until recess
In the afternoon Tan was put upon the
rack again. Thefresh supply of confidence
and instructions which had been furnished
him during the lunch hour soon deserted
him under Mr.. Jones fire, and he became
confused again. He finally admitted that
during the shooting he could not see the
lace OF the shooter and did not know who
he was. He also got himself into trouble
by stating that he saw the shooter run
down Third street and turn into an alley
after performing his muIderous work. He
had testified previously that he ran up
street as soon as the shooting commenced.
But when asked to account for this discrep-
ancy, he reproduced that convenient blank
stare.
The witness was finally excused from
the stand, and another was about to be
called, when Major Anderson, attorney for
the defense. produced a miniature Their
mometer which he carries in his inside vest
pocket, and showing it to his Honor, moved
tor an adjournment, on the ground that il
was too warm for further procedure in
matters requiring great intellectual strain.
His Honor, perceiving that the Majors
thermometer indicated something like 20Oo.
suddenly granted the attorneys request.
and adjourned Court until to-day.