Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-17
ARK TRYING TO EVADE THE MOOSE
His Third Trial on the Charge
of Numbering Guet Cue.
Thirteen Sailors Must Stand Another
Trial for Mutiny.
The Poor Fellows Have Waited Seven
Months for Trial Only to Have
the Jury Disagree-Court
Notes-New Cases.

The third trial of Wong Ark, whose
several trials on the charge of the muir
der of Guet Cue, claimed by him to be
his wife and by others to be his mistress
and slave, have become celebrated, ia
now going on before Judge Mckinley.
The prosecution yesterday ran against
snag in the refusal of the court to ad-
NIT the statements made by Guet Cue
to Officer Rohn as dying declaration,
and it was regarded as technically
strengthening the defense considerably.
Quite a number of Cinnamon were
present yesterday as spectators, although
the general interest in the case has long
since died out. The defendant, who has
probably larger acquaintance amongst
white people than any other Chlnaman
in the city, does not seem much the
worse for his long confinement in the
county jail, and observes the proceed
ings in quiet, but close manner, which
shows how clearly he appreciates that
this time he is on trial for his life. As
he understands English very we'll, he
can follow the testimony, and yesterday
he often suggested questions to his coun-
sci, ]. M. Damron, who is making a
clever defense.
The forenoon and part of the after
noon were taken up in the examination
and cross-examination of All Lung and
Wong Yee, who claim to have been eye
witnesses of the shooting, which took
place on Apablasa street, on the porch
in front of the house of prostitution
where Guet Cue lived. Each testified
that he saw Wong Ark and Guet Cue on
the porch, and saw Ark shoot her, then
run away Immediately after. Wong
Yee testified that he at once blew a
police whistle.
The endeavor of the defense was to
show that these witnesses were periur-
ing themselves, and counsel went over
the evidence on the former trial very
carefully, picking out discrepancies in
their testimony then and now.
Officer Rohn gave his testimony SUBJ
stantially as at the former trials, but
the foundation was attempted to be
made more thoroughly than before, so
as to get in Guet Cues statements to
him shortly after the shooting. She
told him when he reached her, after
hearing the police whistle, that Wong
Ark shot her, saying: "He shootee me !;
he killee me-" and as she turned over
on her left side, 'Me die."
1t was these statements which were
admitted at the previous trial, and
which the supreme court ruled should
not have been admitted.
By more explicitness in Officer Rohn's
examination, the prosecution hoped to
lay the foundation broad enough to let
the words of the wounded woman in as
her dying declaration in the absence of
the defendant. But after arguments on
the point, Judge Mckinley sustained
the objection made by counsel for the
defense, in accordance with the decision
OF the supreme court.
The balance of the afternoon waE
taken up in the cross examination O.
the witness, without eliciting anything
new, and the trial went over until this
morning, when it will be resumed. II
has been intimated that the prosecution
has been making strong efforts to pro-
duce some entirely new witnesses, buI
whether or not they have succeeded il
not given out. The trial will probably
last the balance of the week, the cross
examinations consuming much time
and, in fact, the direct examinations
which are mainly through an interpre
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