Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-30
REPETITION OF AN OLD OUTRAGE

REPETITION OF AN OLD OUTRAGE.
The outrageous abduction of Chinese
woman some weeks ago, through processes
OF the law in Auburn and in this city, has
resulted in San Francisco in brutal MUIR
der. The wife Of a Chinaman of Stockton
was arrested on a warrant from Auburn.
issued on a charge laid by Chinese that
she had obtained goods by false pretenses.
AT the same time warrant was sworn out
IN this city for the arrest of the womans
husband in Stockton, on a charge of lar
ceny. The wife was whisked off to Auburn
and the husband brought to Sacramento.
The latter was locked up; the wife was, it
is charged, placed in a vile house in
Auburn.
The next step in the conspiracy was to
have another Chinawoman personate the
Auburn prisoner" and tender bail. So soon
as the abducted wife was thus released
from supposed imprisonment her captors
presumably seized upon her. for she has
not been heard of since.
In the meantime the husband secured
his release from the Sacramento lookup,
through the Intervention of white friends
who followed him from Stockton to aid
him. The husband at once, and very
naturally, set about to find his wife, and to
follow up and punish those who had been
guilty of the crime of spiriting her away.
As result some indictments were, we be-
lieve, found in Placer county and in Stock
ton, one of them being against China
man and the others against Constables.
The uncle of the injured husband, being
well-to-do and in an extensive business in
San Francisco, aided his nephew with
means to follow up the clues to the con-
spiracy, and to bring all the guilty parties
to punishment On Monday noted high
binder, and one who is known to be an
assassin for hire, in broad daylight waited
on one of the chief streets of the metropo-
lis for the uncle, and as he passed on the
sidewalk the assassin drew a long, heavy
pistol, took rest over his left arm and de-
iberately shot down his victim. 1t was a
clear case of hired killing murder for
coin; the murderer was hired to do the
deed by some one of the associations of
Chinese owing an obligation of protection
to the conspirators who abducted the wife,
and who wished the assistance of the uncle
to the nephew to be cut Off 1t is improb-
able that the murderer will escape punish
ment Witnesses saw his act too plainly
to put it in any manner of doubt. But his
punishment will not satisfy the demand
for justice until all those in any wise guilty
in the use Of the processes of the Courts for
the abduction of the woman are unearthed
and also punished.
The Chinese appear to have no fear in
this matter of making our Courts the vehi-
Giles for the carrying out of their infamous
conspiracies against life and liberty. 1t is
well known, too, that our magistrates are
far too obliging to Chinese applicants for
warrants, and do not exercise that jealous
scrutiny over applications for warrants for
the arrest of Chinese women that they
should. There Is not a magistrate in the
State who does not know that whenever a
warrant is applied for by Chinaman for
the arrest Of 4 Chinese woman, the greater
probability is that it is case of attempted
kidnapping through use of Court processes.
Our magistrates in large part are there
fore to blame for the scandalous prosti-
tuition of the Court process to the vile ends
of the dealers in human beings.
We can recall half dozen local cases,
within comparatively recent times, in
which this same game of stealing women
has been played through the Courts-the
officers are therefore not excusable for per-
hitting themselves to be used as they are
They bave no right to shield themselves
behind technicalities OF the law in these
cases, and say that they must issue and
serve warrants whenever the proper afii-
dayit is filed, and must admit to bail in
cases bailable where application is made
While this may be true, magistrates have
the authority also to take cognizance o.
crimes committed in their presence Oh
attempted through their agency, and il
all cases where they have suspicion tina
the process of the Court is being used fol
vile ends, they should hold the partie.
until their cases can be examined into.
Let US suppose for one moment that :
white man, a citizen, should appear befor'
a magistrate in Sacramento and swear out
a warrant for the arrest of white
woman in Stockton, and that the warrant
WAS served and the woman brought to Sac
ran,ento post haste, would not the magis
trate make inquiry as to who she was
whether the wife Of citizen or not, an'
nr;or to issuing an order to admit her +
h.;, woald he not assure himself that tn
prisoner brought before him was the ldenti
s.l person for whom the warrant had bee
scared !? and would he not assure hlmsel
,ba, Sic desired 10 be set at liberty on bal