The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-06
FROM A CHINESE PISTOL,
A Bullet Sent Through a Win
dow of the Methodist
Mission.
Supposed Relation Of the Shooting
to the Rescue of Slave
Girl.

On the evening of July 3, and while the
celebration of the Fourth of July was al
ready well under way, that is the noisy
firecracker feature of it, bullet from
pistol was sent crashing through window
of the Methodist Episcopal Chinese Mis-
sion, GIG Washington street.
Apparently connected with the circum-
stance of the pistol shot is the fact that
only two tights previously a Chinese
slave girl, All 500, had been rescued by
Miss Williams (acting matron of the mis-
sion during Mrs. Ida Hul's absence),
President McComb of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children. and
Special Officers Frank Holbrook and II.
McMurray from den on Church alley
Just in time to prevent her from being
sold to life of Mongolian immortality.
A rather big hole was made in the pane
of glass, and bullet of about a 38caliber
size was found lying harmlessly on the
carpet of the room. Near the window
stood sewing-machine. The bullet had
struck the machine-cover, but it did not
penetrate the wood-it left slight inden-
tation and partially shattered it. This in
dicates that the force of the missile was
well nigh spent when it entered the
window.
pane and the indentation on the machine
cover indicate that the direction of the
bullet was downward and to the leftward.
The window is one of the second story and
on the east side looking toward Trenton
street, and there is a new three-story
brick building, with fat and accessible
roof, over on Trenton street Just in the
direction whence the bullet seemed to
have come and perhaps far enough away
to have allowed its force to be nearly spent.
The room where the bullet struck is oc-
cupied by Mrs. Chan Hon Fan and her
two little girls, the wife and children re-
spectively of the assistant pastor of the
mission, a well-known Chinese preacher.
The little girls were in bed at the time, but
Mrs. Chan happened fortunately to be
downstairs attending the prayer-meeting
then in progress. This was the only room
on that floor and on that side which had
any light in it. A heavy blind was pulled
down ever it, so that nobody could see into
the room from the outside.
The question which bothers Miss Will
liams and the other occupants of the mis-
sion is, Was this pistol-shot an attempt to
kill some one connected with the institu-
ton out of revenge for the rescue OF the
girl All 500?
~ would like to think it was only
Fourth of July accident" said Miss Will
liams last night, 'but do not know what
to think. l do wish some one could ex-
plain it. The girl is not on that side of
the house. at all. AS for the people living
in that three-story building on Trenton
street, they are all good respecta BILE per-
sons, and some of them are Christians"
The opinion of the police is that the
pistol-shot was an accident, which is an
easy solution of the mystery
The girl, All Soo is very much pleased
with her change of quarters. She is be-
lieved to have no parents, and yet there
are no less than three Chinese women al
ready who are ready to swear to being the
child's mother.