The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-12
CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN.
Revolving Stories of 0utrages Told by Little
Girls-Laundries Damaged by Mob.

MILWAUKEE, March 1.-THE examina-
Ding and Sam Zip ia, charged with entic-
ing little girls to their den and running
them, began this morning. The names of
at least twenty victims are known. and
their ages range from nine to thirteen
years. Three of them told their stories in
court to-day, and additional evidence will
be taken tomorrow. So shocking and re-
voting are the disclosures that q strong
feeling against all the Cinnamon in the
city has been the result. Forty policemen
were called out to protect the two prisoners
to and from the Jail to-day, crowd of 1900
following and ho0ting the prisoners, but
not attempting any violence.
Ten of the little complaining witnesses
were In court, accompanied by their moth
ers, and the sight was painful one. Some
one would think, would touch even the
heart of a Chinaman. They sat up
firmly in row, and, under
other. circumstances it might have. been
amusing to them raise their hands
or to make any request The first witness
was little girl of ten years. She went
into the witness-stand crying, and, al
though she was quite composed most of the
time, her testimony was interrupted by oc-
casional fits of weeping. She first began to
visit the laundry of Hah Ding. on Fifth
street, in February, she said. She and an
other little girl were invited into the
laundry by Hah Ding. who after they had
been there little while, took them into his
bedroom up stairs. He made the witness
lie upon the bed. and after taking liberties
with her allowed her 10 leave. She after
ward visited the laundry again at Hah
Ding's invitation, and she also saw him at
ba of Co N 10 nm 1, OF raa
She visited the latter place three times. and
the Chinamsn took libeI ties with her on the
occasion of every visit. Hah Ding en-
deavored to ingratiate himself with her
and the other children by giving them
small amounts of money, 10 or 15 cents at
time. He also gave the witness pair of
skates, q paint brush and pair of brace
lets to induce her to come again. The little
we'll.
A bright little girl of nine years testified
to similar abuse. She said she did not want
to tell what had been done with her before
all these people," and it took a good deal of
cOaxlng to induce her to tell her story. The
Cinnamon had given her 5cents to purchase
her silence. Sometimes they had given the
girls Chinese candies" to quiet them. They
went to the laundry always after school
She told how Hah Ding had assaulted her
had happened on each of her tive visits to
the place. These and similar stories were
told by the little girls. the details being
such as cannot be printed.
Shortly after the noon adjournment of
court a portion of the crowd which had
been lounging about the vicinity of the
City Hall all the morning. disappointed at
their failure to. catch a glimpse of
the Chinese under arrest, proceeded
of Celestials located on the right hand of
Chestnut street, between Sixth and
Seventh streets, and on Vliet street. At the
former place the crowd smashed the
windows and played general havoc with
the premises causing the almond-eyed
heathen to flee in mortal terror. On Vliet
street the crowd cOntented itself with
squirting filthy liquid. by means of a
garden hose. over the piles of washed and
laundryman than on Chestnut street.
where it was mainly to the building which
belongs to Oh. Sindorf. Demonstrations
were also made against the prOprietOrs of
laundries on the, corner of Twelfth and
Walnut streets and on Fond Du Lac avenue,
near Fifteenth, but o couple of officers
who were dispatched from the West-side
rived IN time to quell the disturbances
throughout that district. Ring Shee, whose
laundry was on the corner of State and
Fourth streets, and John Hing, on the
corner of etferson and Huron. have found
that discretion IS the better part of valOr,
| and have made themselves exceedingly
scarce, their places being entirely closed.
Tonight extra police are guarding the
domiciles of all Cinnamon in the city for
| fear they may be attacked.
The streets in the vicinity of the Chinese
laundries have been thronged with crowds
| of men and boys tonight, and the doors
| and windows of half q dozen laundries
have been smashed in with rocks before
| the police could arrive and disperse the
crowds. At one point an unlucky Celestial
| fell into the hands of the mob, who began
| yelling for n rope to string him up, and he
would have Jared badly but for the courage
| of one policeman. who protected him until
| assistance arrived. Late tonight the
crowds are dispensing, and no more trouble
| tonight is probable.