The herald., 1893-07-25
All YING ON TRIAL.
DID HE MURDER POOR LITTLE
YUETT HOW?
A Number of Attorneys for the
Prosec utiou-The Defense Ad-
vances Novel
Theory.

Inc muTQef tflhi VI StuoAA ASy ~tAes
the supposed murderer OF pretty young
Yuett How in Chinatown last month,
was begun in Judge Smiths court yes
terdsy morning.
Nearly the entire day was occupied in
the selection Of jury, which was finally
secured in the afternoon by 8 80 O'Clock.
The trial promises to be stubbornly
fought battle. The prosecution is re-
presented by Assistant District Attorney
Dupuy and Deputy District Attorney
Davis, by ex-Judge w. A.Cheney and ex-
Deputy District Attorney George Phibbs; !;
Appel and R. A. Ling.
The defendant, who is very clean
looking young Chinamane sat by bis
counsel, stolid as the mostHtolid OF his
race, and looked around but rarely. He
wears the regulation sack euit OF civili-
cation ard his queue is tucked in his
coat.
Intimations that the defense will try
to prove that the Chinaman who was
shot and killed was the murderer OF
Yuett How, instead of the defendant,
lend the case considerable interest.
The first and only witness examined
for the prosecution was DIR. f. A. Bry.
ant, police surgeon, who was at the
scene OF the tragedy very soon after 1T
happened and dressed the wounds OF
the woman. The doctor said he was
called June 9th to the bedside Of Chi
ma woman in little room in house
at the corner of Alameda and Marches
sault streets. 1t was little before g
o'clock in the morning. Several China
men and one or two police officers were
present when he arrived. The woman
was lying on bed and was in state OF
shock. She had two stab wounds in
her abdomen. One was on the right
| side, to the right OF the median line,
and had cut the liver.
The othsr was left of the median line,
a little higher and had penetrated the
stomach. The woman was weak and in
a state Of collapse. There was blood on
her person and her gown, but the wits
ness did not recollect whether or not
there was any blood on the floor. There
was more internal hemorrhage than ex
ternal. The wounds had in his opinion
been caused by sharp instrument; one
of them was to inches long, and the
other an inch and half.
! The doctor went with the woman to
the receiving hospital, and was with her
until che died, about 8 O'Clock. He
thought she was conscious when he was
at the room and also at the receiving
hospital until he administered chloro-
form. She said something, he thought,
in her own language to come one, but
he could not understand it, and was too
busy to pay any attention to it. Her
death was the result OF the wounds.
| On cross-examination the witness said
| that the only way he knew the woman
was Yuett How was BECAUSE he was told
go. She was about 1S or 20 years old.
! She wore a loose Chinese jacket and
loose trousers of drab color. He could
not cay whether or not she had combs
pins in her hair, but thought it was
braided.
The doctor was asked in quite an i'm
pressive way il he saw Tom Bin presen
in the little room, and replied that h,
did. The Chinsman was brought il
from the witness room at the request 9
the defense. and was identified by Dr.
Bryant.
Bin, he said, seemed in authority il
the house. He got the water he needed
and got coverlet to put over the womal
on the stretcher. He also unlocked
trunk in the room, but whether he tool
anything out of it or not the witness di
not know.
The defense was very persistent j
asking about the consciousness OF tn
woman and the effect the medicine hat
upon her.
The prosecution seemed to fight. sh
of asking any questions about what tn
woman eaid, if anything, and also abou
her condition 80 much 30 that Judg
Smith finally asked the witness himse
about her condition, ana he said in hi
opinion she was conscious when he sa'
her until the administration of chlort
form.
Other medical witnesses summone
not being in attendance, and it bein
late, an adjournment was taken until
O'Clock this morning.