The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-27
An HOW GOES FREE.
The Jury Believes He Set a
Trap for Smugglers.
.eoves NE WAS AN lNFoRMER.
- s,ss BY Contrs1ters Against Great
~~-xher,-walswer says His
wife IL Naughty.

r. sat1rposed 70 the charge OF opium
1.-~...slss made against him seemed
$50 ~suxy when outlined by his attor-
- e the United States court Thursday.
- proyen true to the satisfaction
gxls ,urv Yesterday, and the fortunate
<<,.ssusn vent 70 his wife and baby last
- = free man. The jury was out bat
=. minutes before returning verdict of
~ guilty.
a. Hovs attorney had announced that
Il, client would prove that instead OF be-
:, ! smusgier he was In fact acting for
- government himself and Was honestly
s,ssnpting 70 capture Customs Inspector
rterids and his stool pigeon. Jimmie
Fuson. who represented themselves a.
eesam smugglers, expecting Of course 70
.s,ain the informer's one-haif Of
- yslus Of the opium captured
4. Vas also stated that All How
veuld prove that the four cans
q eenuine and the 34s cans Of bogus
epium we're placed In his house by the
suysrnment officers making tbs capture
tas the purpose Of getting . larger In.
fafnerss fee. The FIRST defense the jury
evidently believed to b true, bat the
latter, OF course, they did not pass on.
though some evidence was offered 70 prove
Is truth.
The frst witness sworn yesterday morn
ins for the defense. the government hav-
ing olased its csse, was the defendant Alb
How himself He told ho- he had been
net on the street by Wilson. who had
ssksd whether he could buy some opium
o. On opium smuggler how he had agreed
% bay il, and how he had been introduced
20 Mcbride at the Arlington hotel and
had entered into negotiations. He had
Immediately determined that the proper
thing TO do was to give Wilson and Nc
Bride away TO Deputy Collector Acken-
&c. On the day Of the ngi.t,
Jnns II, he had gone TO Nc
Kenzie's Office TO let the latter know
ths. the trap was rsa dy to spring. but Nc
Kenzis was not In, and he was forced to 20
down 10 his house to see the smuggiers
without getting an intsrview. There the
supposed smuggiers. after little CONVEX
sstion. proposed to go back into the little
room TO look at the opium. There he had
been surprised to find o stack of wooden
boxes filed with opium. He was stopping
over looking at them when he was struck
. blow on the back OF the neck and was
practically dead until he returned TO con-
seriousness at Grace hospital some hours
later.
This was Of course o complete denial Of
McBride's story OF the fight, but
All Hovs statements were corroborated
by bis wife and by the young Chinsman
All Yune, both of whom were In the room
at the time and Who were both hacked up
with the hatchets. His wife and China
man named Ying also corroborated the
story about the opium being brought In
from the outside, and testified to seeing
rart OF the bogus opium brought into the
room by.a rear entrance from the house OF
a French woman next door. A. thinner
man, who was McKenzie's bookkseper.
testified that All How was indeed at Nc
kenxls's office on the day Of the fight at
about noon and had inquired several times
for Mr.. Mckenzie.
Ex-Policeman Boyd testified that he was
the man who first introduced All How TO
Mckenzie, and then Mr.. Mckenzie him
self vas placed on the stand. He testified
that be had been in the habit of receiving
tips" from All How, and that shortly be-
fore All How's arrest he had received IN
formation from him which led to the
making OF forty-pound seizure.
Drs. Coe and Eagleaon testified rs TO the
location and direction of the cuts on All
How's head. they having dressed the
wounds Of oil three Chinese. They were
OF the opinion that All How was In a
STOPPING posture when the blows on his
head xere struck. and their testimony,
strengthened Alb How's case
The case was argued at great length by
Alb How's attorney. who represented his
client as being the most injured Of men
and the victim of foul conspiracy TO get
rid of an enemy to the smuggling trade.
District Attorney Brinksr spoke but few
minutes. eonfining himself principally TO
tidculing All How's defense as an a6so-
iutsly groundless fiction borne out by cir
evidence only. The jury was
then charged briefly by Judge Hanfora
and retired, 20 return In few minutes
with A verdict of acuuittai.