The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-08
PACIFIC COAST NEWS,
Horrible Story Of Crime at
Ensenada Told in
San Diego.
FIRED ON FROM AMBUSH.
Mar Joke, a Chinese Rancher,
Shot by an Unknown Per-
son in Hiding.
INNOCENT BOY MURDERED.
The Youthful Employe Slain in Cold
Blood Without Any Apparent
Provocation.
INNOCENT BOY MURDERED.

SAN DIEGO, CAL, Nov. THE steamer
Pacheco, which arrived from Ensenada to-
day, brings news of the cold bIooded muir
der OF Chinese bow and the attempted
murder of his employer on Monday at
Cipre's ranch, near Ensenada. The MUIR
derer is unknown, but is supposed to be
Joe Castro, a young Mexican who had
been working on the ranch.
The owner of the ranch is Mar Joke, an
intelligent and educated Chinaman. He
was found on Monday night by E. Will
liams, neighbor, moaning at the Iatter's
doorstep. The Chinaman was covered
with blood, which flowed from a fearful
wound in the neck and jaw and from an
other in the leg.
He was taken care of and removed to
Ensenada and the authorities notified.
They interviewed Mar Joke before dis
patching officers to the ranch. Mar Joke
said he had left the ranch at noon, driving
q four-mule team.
He saw two Indians in the yard near the
house, but paid no particular attention to
them. He returned at go o'clock, and
was met by a bullet from some man who
lay in wait between the house and barn.
Joke could not describe him further.
The man fired three shots, the first pass
ing through the Chinaman's neck and
coming out near the nose, the next going
through his right leg and the other strik
ing the wagon seat.
The mules became frightened and ran
away, dashing through wire fences and
running into lagoon near the Williams
ranch. Mar Joke managed to stop them
and then, standing on one foot, unhitched
mule and got upon its back with great
difficulty.
He rode towards the Williams house
until exhausted with loss of blood. After
falling off he dragged himself. the rest of
the way. The only persons at, the ranch,
according to Mar Joke, were Joe Cas- tro, a
Mexican and Mar Won, a Chinese boy.
The Ensenada chief of police went i'm
mediately to the ranch and there found
Mar Won lying in the barn dead, with his
hands tied and a bullet hole in his fore
head. The wound showed that he had
been shot in the back of the neck, the ball
passing through the head.
Investigation showed that the boy had
been cutting wood and was in the act of
carrying an armful into the kitchen when
be was killed. Blood stains and an arm
full of wood were found inside the kitchen
door, which was open.
From the course of the bullet it appeared
that the murderer was lying behind pile
of hay in the yard, unseen from the wood
pile. Under the pile of hay was found a
Winchester repeating-ritle with several
cartridges exploded. Joe Castro was
nowhere in sight and il was feared that
he was also killed.
The rooms in the house were locked and
the officers did not break into them at that
time. Later they entered them, and found
the trunks owned by Mar Joke and Mar
Won broken open and their money gone.
Mar Joke said he had $5S 30 and Mar
ION had lately received $500 in Mexican
coin which he was to send to China.
Several parties at Ensenada volunteered to
go and trail the murderer, but
the officers would not allow
it, and insisted on taking the
testimony of residents in the vicinity, and
holding post-mortem examination of the
boy before finding the murderer. This
course resulted in delaying the search
until yesterday, and it is now believed the
murderer has made good his escape
The fact that the murder was committed
while an unusul sum of money was in the
house inclines the officers to believe that
Joe Castro is the murderer.
AT first suspicion was directed toward
several Cinnamon who had threatened to
kill Mar Joke on account of the non-arrival
in China of the remittances they had given
to him, but the finding of the rifle and the
good craftsmanship with it, together with
the fact that the murdered boy was well
liked by the Chinese, caused the officers to
work.
The body of the boy was cold when
found, indicating that the murderer lay
several hours in the yard waiting for the
return of Mar Joke, to kill him..
IMP ORTANT SUIT At SIN DIEGO.