The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-29

poisoning The jury viewed the body
and signed verdict lthatAh Gee fnng
came TO his death from opium aatninfs'
tered by himself
This done the body was iacpd ~
rough box and turned over 20 the
Chinese who were waiting at the doof,
Tie box was plac9din . wagon and the
long procession Of the Chineaeduneral
moved out OF town III the NphgPlan
graveyard, two miles aistent AAle
man accompanied nc tttnef no
one had any interest III the 9
derer. The graveyard was reached.
box was buried, the ceremonies md
usual exercises were gone through With
tood and papers were left at the grave,
us is the custom, and that evening the
delegation of tramps who Had6heard q
THE burial wandered out to the grave.
kyard TO eat the food left there and that
was the end Of All Gee YunGithe mur-
derer. a.,g46.
be found in Fresnowh will take az
oath that they saw Ah Gee Ypng alive
after the coroner jury pronounced him
dead.
Finding that the last hope was gone,
a Chinese druggist prepared q potion
which would stupetyiand ina measure
suspend the functidnsofilifet This @as
placed in the possession Of All Gee
Yung, to be used as q last resort. Alter
his second failure to escape he drank
the drug. and to still further simulate
death he blotched his skin with paint
prepared for the purpose, so as to give
his face aud meek ~ dark purple, lka
that observed I'M asdead person BY bic
blood setting near the surface. As q
still further deception an artificial roth.
was prepared for the month, like that
produced by poison. All worked per.
fectly according to design.
The rough and-poorly joined box IN.
which the Chinaman was hauled to the
grave was fortunate for him, ls it adj
mttted enough air to keep him from
smothering. No time was lost in reach
ing the graveyard. No white people.
followed, but in case they had followed.
a trick was prepared for the emergency.
In the long funeral train there was con-
cealed a second box, in general appear
ance like the first. It wal hidden in
the bottom ola wagon resembling the
wagon in which All Geo Yung was car
ried. Ii. the march to the grave tho
wagon with theeMRtyThox was driven
to the front and the other was kept in
the background, well concealed beneath
drapery.
The empty box was buried, and the
ceremonies were sad about it as If 1t
had contained the last remains OF the
murderer. The wag n containing the
body Of All Gee Yung was driven to a
Chinese vegetable garden a few miles in
the country, and was there opened. In.
course Of time the man whom the
physicians and the coroner's jury had
pronounced dead was revived, and was
none the worse for his narcotic sleep,
except that he was sick for q day or
two, for the experience had been q
strain on his nervous system. 1t was
unsafe for hirntto remain in this place,
although he had been pronouncedd dead
by q regular process of law, and per-
haps in a legal and strictly technical
sense he would be considered dead and
beyond the reach of the hangman's rope
for past offenses, vet he did not care to.
take the chances of a test, He was kept
in concealment for, a few days at the
vegetable garden, and was then dis
gnised as much ts hossibie,andp put on
board the cafS{oHltha nostbcrAh Gee
Yung was somewhat peculiar inappear.
ance, being ctoss.eyedi and would I'M
der ordinary circumstances, be easily
identified. But the fact that a coro-
ner's Jury had pronounced him dead