Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-12

stand and testlned tnat she blew the p0-
lice whistle internationally seven or eight
minutes before Officer Rohn arrived,
after Goot Cue WAS shot. She was at
home the next day when Bevan called
to see the wounded woman, but did not
see her husband give the officer Ark's
picture. She did not go into Goot Cues
room.
Deputy District Attorney B. w. Diehl
was called, and the defense attempted
to prove by him, as they had done with
Wallin, that Goot Cue, at the time she
made q statement duplicating Wong
Ark as her murderer, in the presence OF
Diehl, Judge Owens, Wallin and others,
was not convinced that she was going
to die. This was objected to and ruled
out, and then Attorney Guthrie, by a
slip of the tongue, asked Diehl if Goot
Cue told him who shot her. The an
swer was that she said Wong Ark shot
her, and the defense was responsible for
the production of piece of evidence
they had been striving days to suppress.
AT this point recess was taken till 2
pm.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
When the court reassembled after
lunch, Leu Took was put on the stand,
and gave evidence as to what happened
in front of his house Immediately after
the shooting, and in Goot Cues room
the next day. He denied that Goot Gne
told Bevan that Wong Ark shot her, and
said that the woman was lying half
asleep when Bevan came into her room
the day after the shooting. Bevan had
pistol in his hand, which he put to the
witnesses nose, asking him to smell it.
! The witness could not distinguish any
odor. Bevan then went up to Goot Cue
on tiptoe, and, swapping the pistol, said,
Him, him shootee you ?" The sick
woman replied in the Affirmative. Bevan
at the time had no picture. The witness
never gave him Ark's photograph, and
never asked him to keep quiet about it
because he was afraid OF being hurt.
The district attorney asked Leu Took
if he had not said to Officer Rohn in the
hall at the noon recess: "You have a
God; me have no God. If / no say
what they (Ark's friends) tell me, they
kill me-" The witness denied having
said this, and stated that he had said to
Rohn: me likee talkee true: me sable
God-see?" Thus Took got out of
very embarrassing situation.
On Took's redirect examination the
defense tried to get in the quarrel Goot
Cue had with the big Chinaman," but
it was not admitted. The witness de-
MED that he told Officer Vignes, on
April 9th, that if he gave Wong Ark's
hiding place away he would be killed.
Attorney Hardesty asked Took about the
shot fired at Goot Cue before her mur.
der, but this was ruled out on an objec-
ton,
After the district attorneys question
about the WITNESSES conversation with
Rohn in the hall, Mr.. Hardesty asked
the court to make an order compelling
the officers to keep away from the wit
nesses in the hall. He did not think it
right that they should be running into
the court every few moments with new
stories and spring them on the defense
without notice. The order was de-
MED.
Officer Auble took the stand and testi-
fed to finding q pistol in Ark's room,
under the pillowsof the defendants bed.
1t was fully loaded and he could not tell
whether it had been fired off recently or
not. He took the cartridges out and
put them on the table. The cartridges
attached to the pistol in evidence were
not the ones he had handled, although
the pistol was the same. Charley All
Him's brother was in Ark's room while
he was there, and 30 was Officer Vignes.
There was picture of Goot Cue on the
wall.
Lem Hing was called. He was in a
three-foot alley, between Marchessault
and Apablasa streets, at the time of the
shooting, together with Wong Tung and
Wo Chung. As he was about to step
out into Marchessault street, man
came running toward him. but turned
on seeing him and ran in another direc-
tion. This was right after the shot was
fired. The witness was asked where he
bad met his companions, and replied at
certain gambling room.
The district attorney attempted to
cross-examine this witness without an
interpreter, but he couldn't sabe, al
though he had been talking glibly in
the hall few moments before. The
witness also had a bad memory and
could recollect very little about what
happened on the night of the murder.
He had heard of the Hop Bing Tung So
ciety, but was not a member of it, and
did not know where its rooms were.
Wong Tung, on taking the stand, cor
roborated the testimony of the preceding
witness. He was an employee of All
Mow's, he said, and was custodian of
the Chinese theater.
At this point Attorney Hardesty again
asked for an order of the court COM
pelling the officers to keep away from
the witnesses. The district attorney
also objected to Charley All Him run
ming in and out of the court room on his
mysterious errands, but no order was
made.
Wo Chung was put on the stand to
corroborate the testimony of the last
two witnesses, and after he had testified
briefly, court adjourned.
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