Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-06


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go home and then shot came. There
were two buggies. Two men, tall man
and lean man, were in one buggy, and
one man in the other. One of the two in
the first buggy was tall man. l saw the
tall man jump out of his buggy first and
shoot the man who was riding alone in the
other buggy. The buggies had been COM
| ing toward each other. When the tall man
tired the lean man grabbed him. The tall
man fired three shots altogether. Before
he fred the second shot the lean man ran
over and pulled the man who was alone
out of his buggy"
| How many shots were fired altogether Pr
asked Mr.. Bruner
| Mong replied in Chinese, and the inter.
prefer translated it thus: Five altogether
I The tall man fired three, and the man who
was alone fred one"
No, TWO" interrupted Mong in the bes,
| of English.
Everybody in the Courtroom laughed
heartily except the witness, who realizing
what blunder he had made, looked very
sheepish. The interpreter was promptly
dispensed with, and Mong finished his ex.
animation in English.
Continuing his testimony, Mong said
After the lean man took hold of the tall
man, the latter shot again at the man that
was alone in the other buggy. Then the
man that was alone pulled pistol and shot
at the man who had taken hold of the tall
man, and then shot the tall man, and the
tall man shot him again
The tall man. referred to by the wit.
ness was understood as being Glacken, the
lean man, Fisher, and "the man alone, ,
| as Menke.
On cross-examination the witness denied
he ever knew Mr.. Stevens OF Allen Springs
or was ever employed by that gentleman
He also denied that be knew City Attorne y
+. @. Hart, police officers Frank Rider
Higgins, or ex officer J. NJ. Sullivan.
Attorney Grove L. johnson then sub.
| lected the witness to vigorous question.
| ing about the tragedy.
| The buggy in which the man that was
alone rode, continued Mong, has four
wheels. The buggy with the two men
stopped first. The tall man fred the frs,
and last shots. The man that was alone
did not fall until the tall man had fred the
last shot. After the shooting was all over
the tall man fell, too. The third man ran
away. l did not see any other men around
but saw three buggies on the road down
near the station. l walked down to Per.
kins' Station after the shooting. did not
tell anybody what saw. Never told any,
| body what | saw, never spoke of it until l
| came IN and told Judge Devine about it.
Nobody was with me when the shooting
took place. After the shooting l did not
| see man drive across the field and
through the gate on the road. My
American name is George Kee. l have DO
| other American names. l know George
Rider and Bart Cavanaugh. l went up to
| Folsom the night before the shooting, on
| the cars to see my friend, Fon Lee Lung.
| walked down because l wanted to stop at
some of the Chinese camps on the way.
The sun had gone down when the shooting
occurred, but it was light enough to see
man sixty or seventy steps. The buggy
| that the man who was alone rode in had a
| top on it, but don't think the other did,
Assistant District Attorney Bruner asked
| the witness number of questions on re.
| direct examination.
| The defense then called City Attorney
| Hart, and the Chinaman was asked if he
knew him. He replied in the affirmative.
| He denied, however, that he had ever told
| Mr.. Hart that he had worked at Allen
| Springs, or that Mr.. Stevens, OF that place,
owed him $50. He also denied that be
had ever asked Mr.. Hart to write to Mr..
Stevens for the money; also that Mr.. Hart
had ever told him that Stevens had written
back to the effect that be (the wituess) had
stolen 200 cigars from Stevens.
| COlSiuucu u,
and then came the sensation of the day.
Attorney johnson, the elder, arose and,
addressing the Court, said that in all his
| experience he had never heard such bare
| faced perjury as the Chinese witness had
| Just committed. He asked that the Court
order All Mong into the custody of the
Sheriff Immediately, and tat he (Mr.
Johnson) would swear to the complaint
He considered it necessary that the China
man should be arrested Immediately as
there was danger of his leaving town if he
| once got out.
The District Attorney wanted to know on
what evidence Mr.. Johnson expected to
convict the Chinaman of perjury.
Mr.. Johnson replied that he would take
care of that. The evidence of O'Brien and
others that were to follow would fully es
tablish the fact that All Mong had sworn
falsely-that he did not witness the shoot
ing at all.
Judge Devine said he would issue the or
der for All Mong's arrest-and then they
looked for Mong.
He had vanished.
Officers were sent after the heather, bu
no trace of him could be found.
| William Lame was the next witness
called by the prosecution. He testified
that he was driving along the Brighton
road with his brother on the day of thu
tragedy, when he heard some shootins
ahead of him. Looking up he saw tn,
flashes of two more shots. He saw Glacker
standing in the road, reckoning him (th
witness) to come up. He went up, anC
Glacken said: Tony did it," and thel
laid down. The flashes saw were abou
three feet from the ground. They cam
} from the north side of the road. When
} stepped over to Tony he was gasping. H
: l 4 ;oJ ,phi1a IN
a word.
On cross examination Mr. Lame said h
did not see a Chinaman on the railroa
track, or anywhere in the vicinity. Glack
en- and Fisher rode in a cart, ard there wa
no top to it. Tony Menke was in car
too, and there wss no top to his vehicl
either. Il reached the participants about
minute after the shooting occurred" sal
j Mr.. Lame. Constable Fay came up yer
a soon after. The sun was still up at th
time of the shooting, and there were n
T signs of darkness coming on"
i Witness did not count the shots fred, b.
: cause they were too rapid. He did II
know who fred the shots that he saw th
It the tragedy occurred, he found Ton
j. Menke lying on the north side of the roa'
where the flashes came from.
e 1t was nearly 6 o'clock last evening whe
r Lame finished his testimony, and then q
q adjournment was taken until this mornin
n at 10 o'clock.
e Benefit to the Snowflake Steward.
e John" the well known and gent
e steward of the Snowflake ball grounds, WI
y has kept the diamond in such excellel
condition during the baseball season