Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-17
THE STRANGERS -STRANGLED
All Yung Hangs Himself With
His Queue.
The Double Thumbed Boy Choker
Suicides in His Cell.
Wonderful Determination Evidenced by
the Convicted Murderer-Details
of His Self-Execution
Yesterday.

All Yung, the double thumbed Chi
naman convicted Thursday afternoon o
the outrage and murder of the little
Mexican boy, Fernando Qnijada, thor
oughly established his right to be q
member OF the order of strangers yes.
terday morning by operating upon him.
self in his cell at the county Jail, thus
saving the county the expense of an
official execution and riddng the earth
OF man too bestial to live.
The method Of his taking off was hor-
rible and in keeping with his crime, and
could only have been accomplished by
the most tremendous determination to
avoid the gallows.
He wrapped his queue twice around
his neck, tied the end to one of the
eteel bars of the lattice work of the cell
about three feet above the floor, and
sinking down in sitting posture,
strangled himself to death, making no
sound to disturb two prisoners in the
same cell, who We're in their bunk to
his left and above him. The suicide
took place between and O'Clock after
breakfast and after Deputy Jaier Char
ley Roques had taken stock of his p,is.
oners and found them all right.
All Yung was convicted of murder
about o'clock Thursday afternoon and
was at once removed to the county jail
to await his sentence, which had been
set for next Monday. When Jailer Rus
sell heard of the conviction he held
consultation with sheriff Gibson and
Deputy Sheriff Barham about what
disposition they should make of the
prisoner until Monday. Not having re-
ceived a death warrant they did not
want TO put him in cell by himself. for
fear he might attempt to cheat the exc
cutioner. 1t was for this reason finally
decided to place him in cell in the
middle tank, together with two other
prisoners, "Pomp" Smith, the negro
held 10 await the injuries he inflicted
with razor on John Manning. and
man named Guzman, awaiting trial on
charge of burglary.
The night passed without anything
out of the usual order of things. The
Chinaman did not put up his bunk, but
slept on the floor of the tank, rolled up
in his blankets He said nothing to his
fellow prisoners, but preserved the
stoid indifference which marked his
demeano from the time he was dragged
out of haystack by Officer Steele until
he was convicted.
At 7:45 O'Clock yesterday morning
Deputy Jailer Roques passed by the cell
and saw All Yung sitting about where
he was when he was discovered dead.
He spoke to him and the prisoner re-
piled briefly.
About 9 O'Clock one of the TRUSTEES, a
man named Thompson, had his atten-
tion called to the cell by an exclamation
from one OF the prisoners, and going to
the door at once saw that something
was wrong with All Yung. He gave the
alarm, and when Deputy Roques reached
the cell All Yung eat in one corner,
his back to the lattice work. He was
still warm and DR.. Worthington was
summoned Immediately. When ne ar
rived he pronounced life extinct and the
body was removed to the morgue, where
an inquest will be held this morning, Cor
oner Weldon being out of town yester-
dav.
Guzmsn and Smith had climb d into
the top bunk after they returned from
breakfast. They were not distant more
than five feet from the Chinaman. The
cell is Fix feet long by eight feet wide,
and the hunks were on the east side.
AS they were lying, some three and
half feet above the Chinaman, they
could not see what he was doing unless
their attention had been called to him,
and both declare that they had not the
leaet intimation what was going on. un.
til Smith started to get down in order to
procure some playing cards, when he
saw something was wrong and made the
exclamation that brought the trusty to
the cell.
All Yung tore strip of cloth from
his Chinese overgarment or coat, which
he attached to the end of his queue.
He wrapped the long queue twice around
his neck, which left short end loose.
But with the addition of the strip of
cloth he was able to fasten the end of
the queue through one of the holes in
the steel bars forming the north eide of
the cell. It was fastened not more than
three feet from the floor. But the end
was so short that when he sank down
with his whole weight and kept his
hands from the floor he slowly
suffocsted That be should have mads
not the slightest noise, not even the
smothering sound made by bis victim
when he strangled him to death, is
astonishing, and that he should have re-
Trained from stretching his hands to the
floor demonstrates bis des peration.
The news of the euicide soon reached
Chinatown, where 1t created come talk
but All Yung's countrymen had evil
IDENTITY fallen away from him after his
conviction and did not chow much in
terest. His attorne-, Mr. Guthrie. ex-
pressed much confidence that he could
secure new trial for him but the con-
victed man evidently felt that his case
was desperate one, and that he had
nothing more to hope from any efforts in
that direction.