Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-26
FOR HIS LIFE.
Wong Ark to Answer for Kill
ing Goot Cue.
Interest in the Case Continues
Unabated.
The Jury Completed and the Case
Commenced.
The Jurors Selected Yesterday-Dr. Kan
non Tells About tho Wound-Ofh-
Ger Rohn Testifies as to Find
ing the Victim.

The work of procuring jury to try
the Wong Ark murder case was contin-
ued in department six yesterday before
Judge Mckinley. The great degree OF
public interest which was manifested in
this case on the previous trial seems
not only to have not abated, but to have
been increased by subsequent develop
ments, and there was quite an audience
in the court room yesterday, composed
about equally of whites and Chinese.
When court convened, two of the nine
jurors who had been accepted on the
previous day-G. D. Compton and M.
Meyer-asked to be excused on account
of physical disabilities, which request
was granted by the court. The exami-
nation of talesmen ther proceeded and
the following four jurors had been ac-
cepted up to the noon adjournment,
when the regular venire was exhausted :
ii. A. Cord, @. @. Johnson, G. w. Cole
and J. L. Dougherty. At noon a special
venire for eight talesmen was issued
ps
1t was nearly O'Clock when the ven
ire was returned, however, and when
the case was called the defense proceed
ed to excuse four of the talesmen in
order to exhaust their peremptory chal-
lenges. This having been done, J. S.
Van Dorm was sworn in over the chal-
lenge of the defendants attorneys.
The last juror took his seat at nearly
a ~ ha k,:o of
Immediately commenced by the clerk
reading the information charging Ark
with the murder of Goot Cue, to the
jury. The defense asked that they be
furnished with complete list of the
prosecutions witnesses as a partial list
had been attached to the information.
The prosecution refused to furnish such
a list and the court would not compel
them to do so.
The defense then asked that all of the
prosecutions witnesses be excluded
from the court room, and that these
witnesses be ordered not to converse
with any of the witnesses for the de-
tense. Judge Mckinley made general
order that all witnesses be excluded and
that none of them converse among
themselves with regard to the case.
The district attorney then proceeded
to outline his case. He said:
Gentlemen of the jury, this is the
case OF Wong Ark, who is accused of
killing Goot Cue on April 26th last.
We will show that the deceased was the
mistress OF the defendant. We will
show that, between and 9 o'clock on
the evening of the homicide, the de-
fendant and Goot Cue quarreled
in room of building in Chinatown;
we will show or try to show that about
9:30 O'Clock the defendant shot Goot
Cue in the stomach in front of this
came building, and that the woman was
heard to say, Gum Dock shoot me-
We will also show that the woman, when
shown a photograph of the defendant on
the next day, said, Him, him, him
shoot me- On these facts, gentlemen
OF the jury, we will ask your verdict"
DIR. M. NJ. Kannon was then called to
the stand. He testified that on the
28th of April last, he made a postmortem
examination on the body of Goot Cue,
and found a bullet wound in the stomach
about two inches to the left of the navel,
which passed through the intestines,
touched the back bone and then ex-
tended forward, the bullet lodging in
the right thigh. A bulleo was exhibited,
which the doctor identified as the one
which DR.. Weldon had found in the de-
ceased's body after they had made six
hours search for it. In the witnesses
opinion Goot Cue died from the effects
OF this wound.
On cross-examination the witness
illustrated on his own body the course
taken by the bullet in Goot Cues body.
The bullet was offered in evidence and
filed.
) Officer Rohn was the second witness
called by the state. He testified that
he knew Goot Cue. On the night of the
murder, about 80 o'clock, he heard
police whistle while he was standing in
front of Chinese restaurant on Ala
media street. The whistle came from
Apablasa street and he ran rapidly in
that direction and found Goot Cue lying
on the sidewalk in front OF her house.
He ran about 140 yards and reached the
spot about thirty seconds after he heard
the whistle. The woman lay on the
sidewalk partly on her side.
Rohn and bystander picked her
up, carried her inside the house
and placed her on stool, later
laying her on mat on the floor. His
assistant was white man, whose name
was Roper. The witness then called the
patrol wagon and Goot Cue was taken to
the receiving hospital. When Rohn
first reached the house where Cue lay,
Len Tuck, Hook May and another
Chinaman were there.
Shortly before O'Clock an adjourn
ment was taken till this morning.
To the Public.