The morning call., 1894-07-30
PREFERRED DEATH
To Being Sold as a Chinese
SIaVe-Girl.
All LONGS UNHAPPY FATE.
Miss Culbertson Tried to Save
the Victim.
BUT SHE COULD NOT ESCAPE.
A Cruel Mother Who Maligued Her
Dead Daughter to Shield
Her Own Sins.

Investigation proves that All Long, the
pretty 16-year-old Chinese girl who COM
mitted suicide by taking opium on Friday
afternoon. has been as cruelty maligned
by her mother after her death as she was
inhumanly treated by that unnatural par
ent during the last few weeks of her short
life.
The story, as told by Miss Culbertson of
the Presbyterian Mission, not only exon
crates the girl from the charge of gadding
about alone that the mother brings against
her dead daughter. but also shows that
poor little All Long was heroine in her
unsOphisticated way, for, after using the
means that lay in her power to lead pure
life and finding that fate, in the shape of
her harpy mother. was too strong for her,
she preferred death at her own hand to
dishonor.
1t appears that Chuch Shee, the mother,
and her husband, All Luck. had family
of three daughters. The eldest married
pretty well few months ago, and the
youngest is girl of ten years. The
family has felt the pinch of hard times
lately in spite of the fact that the two
girls remaining at home aided their mother
IN Working at her trade as seamStreSs, il
was not always easy to live up to the
standard of Chinatown comfort Ah
Long. the middle daughter. was tall,
Duxom girl, with reputation for beauty
among the people who inhabited the same
tenement house, 729 Pacific street, and
among the few visitors admitted by Chuch
Slice. The old woman did not smile upon
anything that took her daughters from
their work. and in spite of the fact that
An Long had been born in this State and
had received some glmmerings of Chris
tlan teaching at mission Sunday-school,
she was not much more emaucipated than
her sisters that live in darkness in the
Fowery Kingdom.
Now. when Chuch Shee heard how
much Alb Long was admired, she presently
remem bered the high price that female
slave will bring from the masters of
homes Of ill-fame in Chinatown, and she
Immediately rushed TO sell Ah Long to a
life of shame. The father willingly con-
sented, and terms favorable to the family
were made with slave-owner How much
poor, defenseless Ah Long wept and
prayed her parents to relent will never be
known. The girl had learned self-respect
in the Christian Sunday-schOols, and all
the iewelry and gew-gaws they showed
her could not tempt her TO consent to be
sold.
In her dilemma she remembered Miss
Culbertsou, and managed through friend
TO send a note to the Mission Home on
Wednesday evening. begging Miss Gull
bertsOn TO meet her on the street the fol-
lowing day at given hour, when she
would try to steal away from her mothers
watchful care and seek refuge in the
home.
Miss Culbertson was there at the given
time, but no All Long came. She walked
backward and forward and saw the in
mates steal into houses, but still the girl
did not come. 1t has since been source
of deep regret to Miss Culbertson that she
did not ask for police assistance and raid
All Longs home on Thursday night. par
tcularly as she has since learned that An
Long tried to keep the appointment. but
was caught on the threshold and fOrclbly
prevented from going out.
II never hesitate about asking police
assistance when it is to save a girl from a
disreputabie house" she said yesterday,
with tears in her kind eyes, "but 10 60 IN
and drag girl from her own mother by
force is thing one naturally shrinks from
doing till driven by absolute necessity. AMI
l had no idea the case was 80 urgent"
1t appears however that on Friday All
Long was to have been handed over into
slavery. Seeing no earthly escape, she
took opium as the only means of eluding
the inhuman creatures who surrounded
her. 1t is thought that the elder sister
would have shielded her. had she bsen In
the city. She had gone into the country
with her husband. however. so All Long
was friendless. When the mother saw
that her child was dying, some spark of
humanity revived in her, and she sent for
DR.. MinDa Whirley, in addition to several
Chinese quacks. When the doctor ar
rived, however. she was not allowed to do
anything for the patient, as the Chinese
doctors were already ministering their
nostrums and charms. They soon saw All
Long was dying, and her relatives dragged
her out into the damp backyard to breathe
her last, as they feared if she expired in
the house. her spirit would haunt them.
The day before Ah Long died, Miss Gull
bertson rescued n Gum Que. little thir-
teen-year-old Chinese girl from den on
Washington street. Her case comes up
to-day before Judge Daingerfield.