Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-12
All YOUNG'S TRIAL COMMENCED,
The Alleged Murderer of Fer
nando Quijado in Court.
Councilman Elect CampbelPs Citizen
ship Called Into Question.
MT. Banbury's Suit Against the Herald
Supreme Court Decisions-M alters
In the Federal Tribunals.
Court Notes-New Suits.

The trial begun yesterday morning be-
fore Judge Smith, in department one OF
the superior court, of All Young the Chi
naman charged with the atrocious MUIR
der of Fernando Quiiada, the young
Spanish boy, in Chinatown October 18th
last. The case promises to be quite an
interesting one. The evidence against
the defendant is principally circumstan-
tial. and the prosecution will seek to
connect him link by link with one of the
most horrible crimes ever committed in
this or any other country.
The Chinaman has Messrs. Guthrie q
Guthrie for counsel, and Deputy District
Attorney Phibbs has Horace Appel asso-
ciated with him in the prosecution.
The impaneling OF the jury consumed
nearly the entire day, both sides freely
exercising their challenges. Two term
trial panels OF jurors were in attendance
and the II Jurors were obtained late in
the afternoon before the panel had been
exhausted. The following constitute
the Jury: O. B. Allen, George Coffin,
W. Dockstados, l.. NJ. Russell, David j.
Boynton, l.. @. Clark, George w. Win
| sor, Stephen NJ. Davidson, F. A At
water, Elmo G.. Daniel, George Clark
and Charles |. Goucher.
1t was 4 80 O'Clock before Mrs. Won
Sing, the first witness for the prosecu-
ton, took the stand. She is one of the
| few Chinese women who have fluent
command Of English, and gave her tes-
| timony without an interpreter. She
was educated in the San Francisco mis-
sion, and is Christian Chinawoman,
married to Chinaman who is tailor.
| She gave her evidence in manner con-
vincing from its evident truthfulness.
She testified that she could not recol-
lect the day of the month when the boy
was murdered, but the events were
fresh in her memory. She lived at that
time in house on Benja street ad-
Joining the house in which the murder
occurred, and her yard was next to the
yard in which the remains of the boy
were found crowded down into the cess
pool of an outhouse.
Mrs. Sing said that she was occupied
in her kitchen cooking, about O'Clock
in the afternoon of the day of the mur-
der. She heard curious sounds in the
adjoining house, which seemed to her as
if some one was being choked. She
went out into the yard and over to her
neighbours, where she told the Chinese
woman what she had heard. 1t was
some time before she could get the
woman to go back with her. She finally
came, and together they listened to the
sounds, and heard some one call out ::
"Save life !" or "Save my life!" They
thought come one was being robbed,
and went out into vacant lot to attract
come ones attention. A Chinaman
came along, and Mrs. Sing told him
what they had heard. He went after
help, and came back after while with
other Cinnamon, and they tried to get
in. The door was locked, and they
called out that if the door was moi
opened they would get some officers.
Mrs. Sing went back in her house, and
she went upstairs where she looked out
of window which commanded the
back yard of the adjoining house. Pretty
soon che saw the door open and China.
man came out. She could not see MIN
well, but heard her neighbor saying
something to him, and when she got
out of her back door, saw the Chinaman
running to the fence and he jumped
over. She called to him, and said: "Sir
are you robbed" He paid no attention
but went right on and ran away. The
yard he was in led to the place where
the boy was found. She did not see the
man close enough to recognize him, bu
be was dressed in black Chinese clothes
wore black slouch hat and Chimes,
shoes. She did not know until between
and O'Clock that night that murde1
had been committed.
On cross-examination Mr.. Guthrie
brought out the fact that the expires
sion, "Save life," was uttered in Chi
nese, which seemed very puzzling. Mrs
Sing also was made to declare NOR
clearly that she could not recognize th
; Chinaman who ran away, and that i
was growing dusk. By the time tn
Chinaman ran away it was quite dark
and she could only see that the man raj
toward the Chinese hospital.
The court took an adjournment at thi
point until this morning. The jury wa
allowed to separate, being admonishe,
not to talk about the case.