The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-11
WONG SING FOUND GUILTY
By Men of Pasadena, Good
and True
HE SOLD BEER ILLEGALLY
A Fire Which Is Thought to Be
Incendiary
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Notes and Personal Mention

PASADENA, Oct. 10. The case of
Wong Sing. charged with violation OF the
LIQUOR ordinance, occupied the whole day
and also the evening in the recorders
court. The morning and part OF the aft.
ernoon we're occupied in the selection of
o jury TO try the case, forty men being
summoned and from among the nun Der
twelve were finally selected, after great
amount Of sparfing back and forth by
the attorneys. After about ten men had
been excused upon one ground or an
other the following jurors were finally
chosen: E. Basore, f. X. Harris, J. H.
Adams. Henry Cloud. A. Il. Nelson, W.
r. Stevenson, ]. f. Church, l. N. Sears,
G. A. Breed, T. l.. Hoag, A. r. Daniels.
G. G. Benton. George 2. Phibbs, attor-
ney for the defense, then stated that he
had been unable to secure the attend
ance of TWO of the most important wit
nesses for the defense, and he very plain
ly animated that the prosecution, or
somebody IN interested, knew something Of
the whereabouts of one Of them, who
bad promised to be present. Several
times during the trial Mr.. Phibbs I'd
ferred to the matter and remarked that
it would be made decidedly warm for
somebody if she did not appear. That an
appeal was to be taken seemed evident
from the beginning, for the defense OBJ.
jected to the introduction OF testimony
at once, on background that the complaint
did not state sufficient grounds for ac-
tion and that more than one offense is
charged. Then when Herman Byer the
city clerk, was calico as the fist wintess,
an objection was raised to the testimony
given by him in reference to the ordi-
nance on the ground that there was
Jthing to show that it was legally
passed and ''immaterial, irrelevant and
incom petent" was the burden of the lay
throughout the trial, with exceptions
noted to neaely every ruling. A. E.
Baldwin was the next witness. Dyer tes-
titled that on August 18th be went into
the restaurant kept by the defendant a
few minutes before a. m. There were
two men there eating and they had Il
bottle of beer before them. He sat down
at the same table, ordered pork chops
and asked for some Of the beer. which
was poured out into his glass and ne
drank it. Afterward he procured the bot
tie, which he now offered in evidence.
NhSh ivy ~ otOiHSJ III eiui nShCo II hc
had been in there before storm of OBJ,
jections we're raised on the ground that
the test mony must be confined to the
day on which the offense is said to have
been commit ted. The court sustained
the objection, when the city attorney re-
minded him that this was reversing
his previoCs rulings in the Con-
fer case, also in the Fluke case
and in the Robinson case. The court
l,A& I'D al.
ruled that such estimony could only be
admitted or rebuttal but reference to
the docke soon showed that the CITY at
torney was right, hence the court, to be
consistent. changed his present ruling
so as to conform to those made before,
while the defense siormed over his man
ifest inability 10 bring numerous wit
nesses at moments notice, as ne would
have to do il he should attempt to dis
prove any testimony offered as to other
days than the one mentioned in the COM
Ilaint. The count admits 1t is hardship,
but he must be consistent with his own
rulings. So witness Baldwin is allowed to
tell OF Other times when he was in the
place. He testified that he went into the
same place on the Goth of August, about
7:l0 m. A gentleman was eating his
breakfast, with bottle of beer before
him on the table. On cross-examination
it was developed that the two men who
were in the restaurant when the witness
went in and drank beer with them were
the other detectives, Carpenter and Bak-
ell. That he had met them before going
there. and that they SAID they we're going
there to breakfast. but he could not re-
member that anything else was said.
That he belonged to the Methodist
church and to the Good Templars. That
the chief templal had given him author
ity to drink liquor in the way testified
to as mean. of obtaining evidence
nat ho 1irpor
defense asked about the whereabouts of
one OF the mattresses in the restaurant
whomshe could not find and whom he
intimated the witness knew something
about. But the witness said he knew
nothing OF her whereabouts, nor even so
much as her name. Gussie Blake, the
attorney stated, was her name.
George II. Carpenter was then put upon
the stand and corroboratcd the state
ments of the preceding witness. Carpen-
ter added that he had procured beer with
lucent meal at the same place. Eugene
NJ. Bakers testimony was in zorro Bora
ton OF the two preceding. The prosecu-
tion rested here.
Then two witnesses were brought on
by the defense to try to prove that some
body interested in the prosecution had
spirited away Gussie Blake, but they
proved boomerangs to the defense, for
their testimony showed in both cases,
though neither heard the other, that
Cinnamon had been to see the girl. one Of
them being the defendant himself, and
that she had said after that that she did
not want to 60 up and testify. That she
had got out of sight this morning so she
would not have to come. These wit
nesses we're about to tell why she had
not been willing to come when they were
stopped. 1t being now O'Clock p. M. a
recess was taken until 1880 p. III. to give
defense u chance to secure tho missing
witness. At 7 80 the witness was secured,
but was not put upon the stand. City
Attorney Arthur, IN his speech to the
Jury, referred particularly to the insinua-
tons OF the defense that this witness had
been made away with. and then she was
not put upon The stand when found.
Alter the speeches to the Jury the verdict
was rendered guilty about fifteen
minutes after the jury retired.
POSSIBLY INCENDIARY.
Last night the fire department was
called out about midnight by the burn
ing of barn In the rear of No, 3Ol Con-
cord court. The building belonged to 9.
l.. Johnson, but the premises were rented
by NV. kellogg, who formerly kept the
Columbia restaurant on East Colorado
street, and he had stored in the barn the
furniture formerly used in the restaurant
This was burned entirely, as the alarm
was not turned In soon enough to allow
the department to save the barn and
its contents, though by hard work they
managed to save the house, which was
but twenty-five feet from the burning
barn.