Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-23
YUNG, THE TWO-THUMBED,
Preliminary Examination of the
Supposed Murderer.
Considerable Room for Doubt as to
His Being the Criminal.
Peter Sormans Saw = Fleeing China
man, but He Was Stoutsr than
Yung-Other Testimony Given
by witnesses.


the boy Fernando Quiiada, began before
Justice Austin yesterday morning.
f. B. Guthrie, Esq., appeared for the de-
tense, and District Attorney Phipps
and Mr.. Apple for the prosecution. The
case lasted throughout the day, court
adjourning ct 5 o'clock in the evening.
Police Surgeon Bryant, in his testi-
mony, described the results of his ex-
animation OF the murdered boy, in which
examination he estated that he found the
evidence of a foul crime having been
committed; and an examination of the
Chinese prisoner indicated that the &C.
cused was guilty of that crime.
Peter Sormans, boys aged about IS
years, testified that few minutes after
the murder he met Chinaman, who
was running away from the direction OF
the house where the murder was COM
mitted. "He looked to the right, to the
left, and he looked back" said the wit
ness, "but don't know if the prisoner
is the man that 1 saw; the Chinaman
who ran seemed to be 'fatter' than this
one."
"What do you mean by being fatter 2"
asked Mr.. Phibbs "Doyo mean more
feshy in the face"
"Yes!" continued the witness. "He
was fatter in the face, and his body was
fatter. | was about go feet from him
when l saw him look back. When some
body told me that crazy Chinaman
had killed a boy, then recollected that
l had seen Chineman running away
from the direction of that house, and
looking to the left, to the right and
ta 'kward."
Officer L. H. Steele, who captured the
prisoner where he was concealed in
haystack on the Nadeau ranch, identi-
fed the prisoner as the man he captured,
stating that when captured the prisoner
was bare-footed, and wore pair of over
alls and an overcoat. Officer Steele
further testified to the details of the
pursuit and capture, which have been
printed.
Officer l., R. Harris testified that he
was on duty in Chinatown on the night
OF the murder, and that shortly after the
occurrence and unknown Chinaman
came to him and said that a murder
had been committed, when he went with
the Chinaman to the scene of the MUIR
der.
The most important evidence intro
duced by the prosecution was that of All
Sam, who has vegetable garden in the
Vernon district, near where the prisoner
was arrested. The witness said:
Saturday evening, about 6 O'Clock.
Chung All Yung came to my place and
asked me for money, saying that be had
hit boy, and that he wanted money to
pay his way; he was very much fright
ened; refused him money and he i'm
mediatelv went away"
Chan Qui Sing, court Interpreter,
testified to conversation that he had
with the accused in prison:
when | asked him where he was on
the Thursday evening at the time of the
murder, he replied that he and some
other Cinnamon were playing dice.
asked him where he slept that night,
and he replied, 'on a ranch I asked
him why he went away to the ranch.
and be replied that he had been driven
there, that people had accused him of
having had trouble with boy" The
witness was asked whether the prisoner
admitted that he had had trouble with
the boy, but the witness could not re.
collect clearly enough to be positive.
Guthrie >obj-cted to this testimony
on the ground that the statement
of the prisoner was made while in Jail.
under duress, and while he was in a
frightened state of mind.
The objection was overruled and ex-
ception taken.
Mong Sing, the Chinese woman, who
lives upstairs in house adjoining that
in which the murder was committed.
testified that she heard some one cry
out in the Chinese language, .'save
life." and that she heard some one
climb over a fence; the fence is about
seven feet in height, and she was about
80 feet from where the murder was COM
mitted.
The expression "save life," as use
by Cinnamon, is similar to the alarm
murder" used by English speaking
people.
Francisco Quijada, the father of the
murdered boy, identified the boys hat,
basket, and to seeing his body at the
coroner's Office.
A Chinaman with the suggestive
name of Yu Lie testified, but his evil
dence was unimportant-not suggestive
OF his name, or otherwise.
The prosecution rested, and the case
went over until Monday morning.