The morning call., 1893-04-07
ATTEMPT TO BRIDE.
Lee Sings Friends Offer a
Witness Money.
The Highlander Trial in Judge Dain-
gerfield's Court Reached at Last.
Eye Witnesses Testify.

All things come to an end. and the task of
impanelng a jury in the Lee Sing murder
case has proved no exception TO the rule.
When court adj .urned on Wednesday
night eleven men had been secured. and
early yesterday the twelfth man was OBJ
taiued, and the case was ready for trial.
Lee Sing. the age-lookng highlander,
was removed from tile dock and placed in
a chair beside his counsel, NJ. NJ. Coffey.
Forthwith he stuck his hands into his long
sleeves, fixed his little savage eyes on
certain spot on the ceiling, and hardly
moved during the entire day. 1t is hard to
say whether his indifference Is due merely
to his being a stoical, stolid Chinaman, or
whether in his particular case the indif-
ference arises from a confidence in the
powers of his friends to save him.
Some color is given to tie latter theory
by the testimony OF n witness to The shoot
Ing, Mrs. Annie Leonard, who was offered
money to leave the State.
The FIRST witness called wasiA sistant
Police Surgeon Deane, who testified as TO
the treatment Of tile fatally wounded
ChiDaman after his removal 10 the Recely-
ing Hospital.
He testified that Chow Kee. whom the de-
PENDANT Is charged with having murdered,
was received at the hospital suffering from
q guns hot wound ia the back, the point OF
entrance being two inches from the median
line Of the spine, ranging inward and DOWN
ward. lodging between the last dorsal and
first lumbar Verteble, injuring the spinal
cord
The question was raised by defendants
counsel whether the deceased Chinese
would not nave recovered, or at all events
have been alive to-day if lie had received
special medical care and attention.
DR.. Deane assured the jury, however,
that the wound was necessarily fatal, COM
plete paralysis of the lower eXtremities
having existed from the moment the patient
was admitted TO tile hospital, and that
death was mere question of time.
Mrs. Annie Leonard was then called TO
the stand, and testified that while walking
along Stockton street. between Pacific and
Jackson, she saw the defendant approach
the deceased Chinaman from behind and
fire three shots at him from his sleeves.
His arms were incased in long sleeves"
she said, $50 | could not swear TO seeing
the pistol. but distinctly saw three flashes
ana the man fell His assailant ran down
Jackson street.
Last night" continued the witness. two
Cinnamon called at my residence and asked
10 speak to me. / asked them what they
wanted, and they said they had come to see
me about Lee Sing, who was on trial for
murder, and they said they knew that l was
going to testify against him.
Then one Of them told me that Lee Sing
was not member of the Highlander society
and had no authority from the society to
kill the man; that he did 1t for private rea-
sons and could expect no ali from the
society. but that his friends had undertaken
his defense.
They then offered me a sum OF money if
l would leave the State and not testify
here to-day. OF course | showed them the
door at once"
Gustav Levy, cgar-merchant, was the
next witness called TO the stand and proved
TO have also been an eyewitness 10 the
shooting.
Il WAS coming down Jackson street." he
said, land when l got about 10 the corner
OF Stockton | saw two Cinnamon on the
opposite side of Stockton street, between
Pacific and Jackson and nearly at jackson,
in which direction they were walking
When the man behind got nearly up to the
man in front he raised his hand and fired
two or three shots at him, don't know
which, and then struck him over the head
with bludgeon. i ran across the street
and succeeded in hitting him one blow, but
he succeeded in getting away from me and
ran down Jackson street"
This witness complained that he was
forced to dance attendance on the court for
week and half before he was called
TO testify.
The witness cross-examinatlon closed
proceedings for the day. The case goes on
at 10 O'Clock to-day.