The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-12-31

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DR.. Leach soon arrived, and with
the assistance of Sheriff Hensley,
Janitor Henry Smart, John Dennis,
the death watch;and Charles Bond
the Chinese was treated to revive
him, for his life was not extinct
It was pronounced case of opium
poisoning, and as further proof of
this = horn vial was found between
the blankets of the bed. It would
contain about an ounce OF opium,
but was empty when found. The
odor showed that it had contained
that drug.
All the known antidotes- fol-
opium poisoning were used. Three
times the doctor pumped the Chi
naman's stomach full of water and
pumped it empty again. Coffee
was given also. At three o'clock
in the morning life was not extinct
and the doctor left him, and
thought it possible that the poison
had been overcome, and that his
life would be saved for the gallows.
But in an hour the Chinaman was
pronounced dead.
Soon after daylight that morning
the body was put in box and sent
to the coroner's Office, on ] street.
The Chinese were early at the Jail
with offers to bury the body as
soon as it was turned over to them.
As the burial would be an expense
to the county if done by the under
taker, and as the Chinese offered
to do it for nothing, there was no
objection, and they were told that
the body would be turned over to
them as soon as the coroner's Jury
had brought in a verdict Of the
cause of his death.
The inquest was held that morn
ing. DR.. Leach said that death was
due to opium poisoning. The jury
viewed the body and signed the
verdict that All Gee Yung came to
his death from opium administered
by himself.
This done the body was placed
in rough box and turned over to
the Chinese who were waiting at
the door. The box was placed in
a wagon and the long procession of
the Chinese funeral moved out to
the Mongolian graveyard, two miles
distant. No white man accom-
panied the funeral, and box was
buried with the usual cermonies
and formulas, and that was sup
posed to be the end of All Gee
| Yung, the murderer.
But it was not so. Fifty people
can be found in Fresno who will
take an oath that they saw Ah Gee
Yung alive after the coroner's jury
pronounced him dead.
Finding that the last hope was
gone, Chinese druggist prepared
potion which would stupefy and
in a measure suspend the functions
of life. This was placed in the pos
session Of All Gee Yung, to be used
as last resort. After his second
failure to escape he drank the drug,
and to still futher simulate death
he blotched his skin with paint pre-
pared for the purpose, so as to give
his face and neck q dark purple,
like that observed in dead person
by the blood settling near the sur
face. AS still further deception
an artificial froth was prepared for
the mouth, like that produced by
poison. All worked perfectly ac-
cording to design.
The rough and poorly joined box
in which the Chinaman was hauled
to the grave was fortunate for him
as it admitted enough air to keep
him from smothering. No time
was lost in reaching the graveyard.
In the long funeral train there was
concealed second box in general
appearance like the first. It was
hidden in the bottom of wagon
resembling the wagon in which All
Gee Yung was carried. In the
march to the grave the wagon with
the empty box 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 said about it
as if it had contained the last re-
mains of the murderer. The wagon
containing the body of All Gee
Yung was driven to a Chinese veg
etable garden few miles in the
country, and 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 mar
cotic sleep, except that he was sick
for day or two. It was unsafe
for him to remain in this place, al
though he had been pronounced
dead by a regular process of law,
perhaps in a legal and strictly tech
nical sense he would be consid-
cred dead and beyond the reach of
the hangman's rope for past Of
fenses, yet he did not care to take
the chances of q test. He was kept
in concealment q few days at the
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