The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-29
IBRJG THAT sBSPENlS LIFE USED
And After a sham Burial the Con.
demned Mnraerer Was shipped to
ohina.-.An Actual Occurrence
which Reads Like a Romance.

been publishedpput which deserves to
beput in printa for 1t shows how the
cunning Of Chinese outwitted the most
yistlant watchtulness Of law officers and
saved from the gallows a condemned
criminal. The story reads like a rom.
ance, but It's truthfalness can be youched
fot by many pgrsons.
The facts were NOT known to a white
man till last night, when a Chinese de-
tective diyulged them to a prominent
lawyer OF Fresnowho is engaged in some
knotty Chinese cases, and tho Celestial
grew familiar and communicative and
told the details Of how All Gee Yung
was saved from the gallows in October,
1880, in this city. It was by q device.
similar tothat recorded by Shakespeare
IN Romeo and Juliet"
ON the morning Of November q, 1889,
aibrutal murder was committed in the
Chinese quarter Of Fresno. The victim
was q, Chinese woman, an inmate OF q
brothel. She had been stabbed twenty
seven times, aud her lacerated hands
showed that she Ind made a desperate
struggle for her life, claspinR tho keen
blade. OF the knife until her fingers were
nearly severed. She wa dead when the
police reached her, although when they
had been attracted by her screams they
lost no time in breaking into the room.
The murderer, All Geo Yung, was
caught red.hsnded andcovered with the
blood Of the dead woman. The knife
was still in his hand, and after he had
made the first dash to escape when the
officers appeared he resisted no more
and did not deny that he had commit
ted the deed. Ills only excuse was that
the woman had deserted him.
The case was a plain one. There was
but one thing possible and that was q
conviction. He was ably defended by
George w. Jones, OF Fresno. but there
was no defense possible under the cir
ycnmstances, and the jury found him
guilty and the penalty Of death was pro-
nonneed,
The usual appeals to the supreme
court were taken, but they ayailed moth
ing for the condemned man. Thelower
court was sustained and it was ordered
that the sentence OF death be carried
into execution. All hope from courts
q or from the p%ardoning or committing
power were at an end, and to all ap!
pearancea there was nothing left the
condemned man but to pay the penalty
of his crime with his life.
Powerful Chinese companies had.
stood3by AhgGee Yung through all his
troubles, and they showed no intention
offdeserting him as long as there was
any hope, and with them so long as
there was any life there was hope.
First All Gee Young attempted to
escape. By what means he secured the
KEYS. or where he concealed them from.
the frequent search Of the iailer, is not
stated. Yet one day he unlocked his
cell door and was passing across the
corridor when he was discovered and
taken back. "A thorough search Of
every conceivable place where keys.
could have been hidden failed to re-.
veal them, and the conclusion was
reached by some that IN turning the
keysthe jailer had failed to turn the
boLtfat enough, and the Chinaman had.
pushed It back ana thus passed through.
The caseIwas desperate, and a few
diva aftefward another attempt was.
made. AtSdusk of evening, while the
i.dler'siback was turned for q moment,
All Gee YIng unbolted two doors and
escaped from tho Jail. The alarm was
quickly sounded and a search was be-
gun. Although he had not thirty sec
onds the start Of the iailer yet he had
successfully disappeared from sight,
andlfor some time nothing was heard
ofhim. But at length he was discover
edsina cl6set near the Jail, clinging
like abat 10 the wall back OF the door.
He was recaptured nd returned to
lis cell. A search mpre rigid than
ever was made for the kef with which
hetunlocked the doors of be jail. The
wardens and the oficera about the
buildings assisted, and hot a space
within the cell rs large ak Q grain OF
wheat was left ~tunsearched. Els clothes
wefeStaken off his queue was un-
braided, but nothing at all was discov-
cred.
T|helsecond 3;ttempt to escape by un-
looking the prison doors was on October
y, 1890. The day Of execution was near
III hand, and there was no time to lose
II the prisoner would escape the gal
Iows. He was thoroughly searchedand
taken TO his cell The death watch,
John Dennis, was placed over him just
outside the door, where every move.
ment could be seen at once.
The condemned man lay on his bed,
andseemed to fall asleep. About half
mast eleven that night the death watch
observed prolonged silencein the cell,
and, Becoming suspicious that all was
not right, u~nlockedthe door and went