The record-union., 1891-03-02
STABBED TO DEATH.
Mysterious Murder of a Chinaman By
His Countrymen.
An Eyhumed Body Presents Sicken.
ing Spectacle-Six Chinese Cn-
der Arrest for the Deed.

Mention was made in the RECORD
UNION several days ago of the fact that
Coroner Clark had given the authorities
of Placer County permission to exhume
the body of Il Chinaman who had come to
his death in that county, but who had
been buried near Folsom, in Sacramento
County.
1t was stated then that information had
been received leading the Placer officers
to believe that the Chinaman had not
died from natural causes-that he had
met with foul play.
Subsequent developments go to show
that the information received by the
officers was not without foundation, and
that an atrocious murder had been COM
mitted.
The name Of the dead Chinaman is All
Louie, and he was about fifty years of
age. Who is the murderer is not yet
clear, but the case in all its details is as
sensational as 1t is revolving. The deed
seems to have been premeditated, delib
crate, and committed with malice afore-
! thought.
THE PARTICULARS.
The particulars of the atroeious deed,
as given i'll Saturdays issue of the Placer
| i1Ss'1td, are rs fOliOWS:
/ About two weeks ago All Louie left the
! Chinese camp near Rattlesnalle and went
to Hector's, near by, and asked pernlis-
| sion to stay there, claiming as 4 reason
| that his cCuntrymen wanted to kill him.
! Robert Hector, who has some influence
among the Mongolians of that section.
persuaded hirl that he was unnecessarily
| alarmed, and, after giving him some
thing to eat, offered to return with him
TO the Chinese camp and see what was
! the matter.
| on reaching the camp Mr.. Hector told
! the boss Chinaman there, All Tuck, that
if they hurt All Louie it would causc
trouble, and he was assured that Louie
would not be harmed.
LEFT TO HIS FATE.
! He went away, leaving Louie at the
camp and thinking no more would come
OF whatever trouble they might have
previously had.
/ The next day he noticed strange team,
driven by & white man, come up past his
! place ana drive on TO the Chinese camp.
| When it returned All Tuck was riding
with the driver, and in the wagon was
box which Mr.. Hector suspicioned con-
/ tanned 4 dead Chinaman. His worst sus-
picions were aroused at once, and going
up TO the China camp and making dill
| gent inquiries for All Louie, the most he
could learn was that ''Louie heap sick
night before and may be he die"
\ few days going by and All Louie not
showing up any more, Mr.. Hector in
/ formed the officers of his suspicious
| Sheriff Conroy and his deputies at once
went to work on the case, and the dis
closures were startling.
LOUIE WAS DEAD.
They learned that the box which Mr
! Hector saw taken by his place really did
contain dead Chinaman: they learned
hot i,n hr,-i -i.a1 OF lfnle +I,,1x-
learned who made the box, who drove
the wagon, who buried him and exactly
which was his grave.
After arranging with the Sacramento
authorities, as Folsom is in Sacramento
County, Sheriff Conroy, Deputy Sheriff
! Rooney and others went to Folsom last
Thursday for the purpose of disinterring
the remains.
They called at Rattlesnake and took
along with them All Tuck and his boy.
On the way down Tuck insisted that All
Louie died of natural causes.
J On reaching Folsom the sheriff hired Il
man to dig up the box. The grave was in
an old Chinese burying ground that had
not been used for years, and they found
the box about seven feet under the
ground, four feet deeper than Chinese
usually bury their dead.
STABBED TO DEATH.
On getting the box out ii was opened
and DR.. Rooney proceeded to make an
examination of the corpse for the purpose
OF ascertaining the cause of death. He
found one side of the face bruised as
though it had been smashed in with q
blunt instrument, and in the abdomen he
found six stabs that looked as if they
might have been made with dirk knife.
The bowels were protruding from some
of these cuts, any one of which was deep
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When Tuck was questioned in the
sight of this revelation he changed his
tack and said: ''Ah Louie was heap clay
and may be he kill HIMSELF"
Tuck may not personally have killed
All Louie, but his prominence among the
Rattlesnake Cinnamon renders it morally
certain that he knows all about il, and
was in all probability at the very least an
accessory to the foul murder.
ARRESTS MADE.
The remains of All Louie were brought
TO Auburn by the officers, and six China
men in all, two from Folsom and four
from Rattlesnake, including All Tuck,
were arrested by the Sheriff and his depu-
ties that day and lodged in the Auburn
Jail to await the result of further investi-
cations.
4 The remains were turned over to
Deputy Coroner Fulton, who subsequent
" summoned jury and began an in
quest.
After the examination Of two witnesses
from Folsom, Justice Murch. who dug up
the remains. and DemeSter, one of those
present when the body was exhumed, the
further hearing of testimony was post
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