The morning call., 1892-09-29
4 HARD NUT TO CRACK.
Was Mock Sue Ying Born in
San Francisco?
4 Serious Question That Bids Fair to Drive
United States Commissioner Heacoek
to Distraction.
- ha1d. hard nut 70 craek.

rs hard. hard nut to crack.
Twenty Chinese say she is and twenty
swear she is not.
The question is the nativity of yellow,
brght-eyed little Mock Sue Wing, Chinese
maid OF matron. as the case may be.
She herself says it's matrOn. and she
claims Fong Jun. a Dupont-street cigar
maker, for husb1nd.
Fong Jun does not deny the fattering
accusation, and he makes one Of the twenty
oGd who say she is.
There's lots of money behind the case
somewhere, for two high-prieed lawyers
have been retained to maintain that she Is
and this is the second hearing OF the case.
Commissioner Heacock must crack that
hard, hard nut He is already gray and
patriarchal That ne is not bald as well
evidences patience like Jobs and the wis
dom OF Solomon.
Little Mock came to America in May last.
In June Commissioned Heacock decided
that she was not native and not entitled
to a residence here.
Attorneys Wilson and Bert appealed the
case to the Federal Circuit Court. With the
appeal they presented four new sfidavits,
from Loi Chue, Gee Yin, Lee Hing and Lin
Hong
These Celestials swore they knew little
Mock when she was babe in arms, knew
when she was born; in fact, we're present
at the shaving feast.
Baby Mock was shaved when three
months old. Then the feast was held.
Three months later she was shaved again.
10 1880 she went 10 China along with the
parent Mocks. There she married Fong.
Uugallantly Fong returned to the United
States a few months later witho his bride.
And now for ths past three or four days
Commissioner Heacock has been trying to
find out whether he ought to send little
hool l. iaKh har
Mr.. Ruddel Of the Chinese Bureau aud
United States District Attorney Shurtliff
have been trying 10 show that little Mock is
By nature all that her name implies.
The testimony has been voluminous and
contradictory.
To man up a tree it looks as though,
first, the petitioner had proved positively
all her claims OF nativity, even TO the al
legged shaving feast; and second, that the
Government has proved beyond a shadow
of doubt that all her witnesses are falsifers
and that she never was born here.
All yesterday the case was being heard.
L0i Sue for the petitioner swears so
and so.
Then comes Lee Wah for the Government
and swears exactly 10 the contrary.
1t looks like "boss and boss"
But now comes Marshal Long and con-
tradicts the man who contradicts.
That's sure "cinch" The Marshal is a
"whte man" in more ways than in color,
and his testimony is one point for little
Mock.
Comes now little Mock's husband, and
with hand uplifted to heaven swears he left
this country on such a steamer on such a
date, and re.entered on such steamer on
such date.
Comes then Mr.. Raddel, also a white
man" in more ways than one.
Il have looked over the record care.
fully" he says, "and find no such name as
Fong Jun on those steamers"
And there are the records themselves TO
prove it.
Commissioner Heacock sighed and grew
visibly older
However, he had an opinion ready, and
was about to deliver it when Attorney VIII
son asked for further time to investigate
that record.
And so the case went over till MONDAY
morning.
There is suspicion that Commissioner
Heaeock'S decision, had it been given yes
tsrday, would have read something like
this:
II condemn all these Chinese witnesses to
capital seryitude for life, aud that both the
Government and the petitioner are guilty of
al attempt to steal away ms reason."