The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-22
WONG MI MOURNS.
His Tickle Wife Flies With
a Lover.
A CHINATOWN ELOPEMENT.
Acute Mongolian Sentiment Puts
Chinatown in a Whirl of Excite
ment-Babes' Abandonment.

very depths.
The threats of the murderous highlander
gang or the dire consequences of their re-
fusal 20 obey the Geary act pale into nsig-
nificance compared with this new and start
ling event.
The sensation is no less than the first
elopement in nearly twenty years In China
town.
The woman in the case is the wife Of
Wong Mi, but the name of the gay Lothario
with whom she has flown is not yet known,
but II is strongly suspected that lie is GER
tain good looking young Monaghan.
The worst feature in the case is that the
woman left behind her Il seven-months-old
baby boy.
Wong Mi, the deserted husband. lives in
the basement of Prospect place, where he
is doing all he can to attend to the wants of
his baby boy while mourning the loss Of
his wife.
Wong Mi and Yin Choie were married on
March .. 1887, at the Presby terian Mission,
1913 Sacramento street. by the late Rev. DR..
Luomis. At that time he was 26 years Of
age and she 20.
Yin Choie was a Christanizsd Chinese.
She entered the mission when she was u
years of age, and remained there till she
was married. Wong Mi has not embraced
Christianity.
Three children were born of the marriage.
one dying when 4 years of age, another
when / year old and the third is the baby
referred TO.
Wong Mi is a cook and has been employed
by different white people. When he went
home on April II. about II o'clock at night.
he was amazed TO find his wife gone and
their baby crying Itself into spasm in It's
cradle. His wife had emptied every box of
lis contents and had even taken with her
In 1.a1. hn- "A &c.
Nothing was left but the furniture, and
there is not much OF it altogether.
a notice was posted on the walls of Chi
natown a few days afterward by the Wong
family offering reward for any one that
would give information as 10 the where
abOuts OF the clipping pair.
Detective Cox heard of the offer and sug-
gested to the friends of the husband that a
warrant should first be sworn out for the
wOman's arrest on ;he charge Of abandoning
her child and there would be some sense in
offering the reward.
Acting on this advice Wong Mi, accom-.
panied by his baby hoy and a friend. APP
peared in the Office Of Warrant Clerk Mckee
yesterday morning and obtained the war
rant.
The maximum punishment for the offense
is seven years Imprisonment in State
prison.
Under the laws in China n parent who
abandons her child is subject to the cruelest
torture ever inflicted upon human beings.
1t is called the Lin Chez process and con-
sists in cutting pieces from the living body.
beginning at the eyebrows, Till nothing is
left 10 cut.
In talking with a number of Intelligent
Chinese about the elOpement one of them
voiced the opinion of the others when he
said: "lf it had been my wife | would
have followed them till l found them and
then l would have shot them both dead, No
mattpr what the pou mtpht he Z
myself afterward."
They denounced the heartless mother II
the bllterest terms. From remarks let droI
it was gathered that the real object in offer
ing the reward was 10 find the location OF
the eTTing couple, and then they would have
beea found dead and nobody would hav,
| known who was their murderer. After il
was known that the woman could be pun.
ished under American laws it was decided
to give up that idea and allow the law tC
| take its course.
a visit was paid by Detective Cox and
reporter of THE CALL 10 Wong Mrs resi-
| dence, Prospect place, yesterday after
| noon.
Wong Nj opened the door. with the baby
in his arms, which he had been busily feed
| ing with warmed rice and milk.
The room was plainly furnished, but i
| had the advantage Of being commodious
| At one corner portion was partitiOned off
which is used as a bedroom. In the centel
was an oblong table and around the room
| were scattered about half a dozen chairs
| A small cookng-stove stood at the end o.
| the room. and close to 1t were a number OF
| shelves against the wall.
| The interior was comfortable enough
! There was 10 sign of dirt and none of The
| offensive smells that greet the nostrlls in too
| MANY Chinese houses.
| Wong Mis- face is not by any mean!
| bright; it is OF the dull. heavy order l
was pitiful to see the sick child being nurseC
! by the deserted husband and evidently
wondering why its mother never came L
watch over and care for it.
Wong said he bad never for a mOmen
suspected that his wife would prove I'm
faithful to him. He had been sick off ant
on for the past two years, and was nov
| again on the sick list. Il was rather harC
to attend 10 a sick child also. There wa
no reason for his wife leaving him at all
| She had all she wanted, and he thought sh
was cOnieuted.
Going into the bedroom he opened the Ii,
OF one box, then OF another. and still an
| other, all having been emptied of their con
tents by his wife before she fled.
Have you any idea OF the san your wifi
| has gone with" was asked.
Wong shook his head. but af erward sail
lie thought ii was young man. but be di,
| not know his name.
1t was ascertained from friend o
| Wong's that last summer, while he was sick
his wife attempted TO poison him and sine
then their married life had not been 8
happy as before.
According to the Chinese custom If Woni
places his child on one of the principa
streets of Chinatown in basket every Chi
nese that passes will drop some money int
the basket for the purpose of helping i
prosecuting the mother.
AT the Presbyterian Mission they had
different story TO tell
Yes. | remember the wedding" said on
of the lady superintendent. II was pres
emf.
YIN Choie came to us when she was |
years old. At that time her appearance
showed that she had been cruelty heater
more particularly about the head.
'She was always noted for lack of juds
ment. That was her great fault.
since she was married she often con
planned Of her husbands cruel treatmen
He would never give her enough money
buy milk for their babies, and when sh
would ask for more money he would te
her to go to some of these places down til
street, where she could get plenty.
He weuld buy cents worth of meat
last them for three days-rather poor SUI
tenance for a young mother to live upOn
while nursing her children she used
be constantly at work binding satin sill
pers, and during the six years of their ma
rled life she made in this way $500, whit
went into her husbands pocket.
lie uSeu TO peat ner also during VI
night when he thought no one could he
her cries.
''She thought, no doubt. that by leavir
the child. seeing it was a boy, it won
prevent her husband following her, whit
he would be sure to do IL she had taken Il
baby boy with her.
AFTER she left him he came to us wi
the baby and some OF the girls bathed ital
did all they could for it. As he kept moa
ing his fate at being left with the baby, '
offered to keep 1t in the home for So
month. but he has not brought it yet
There are faults on both sides, and he
as much TO blame for the crisis as she is,
fact more So"