The herald., 1896-11-15
LEGAL COMPLICATIONS
Affidavits Filed in the
Big jim" Case
MISS I|LMAN RETRACTS STATEMENTS
A Motion Made for a New
Trial
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Mill-Court Notes.

There is probability that Chew Wing
Cow who was convicted after pro-
tracted and peculiarly interesting trial
in department one of having murdered
Wong Chez, an aristocratic Chinaman
who was the head and front of the Bing
On tong, will be accorded a new trial
Yesterday was the time set for the ar
gument on the motion for a new trial
and the attorneys showed up in force.
Attorney Phibbs of special counsel for
the prosecution was present with Dis
trict Attorney McComas and Attorneys
LIE Compte Davis and Ling represented
the defence.
Attorney Ling presented the motion
for a new trial which embraced all the
technical points usually embodied in
such a motion. To sustain the claim of
new evidence. which was one ground of
the motion, several affidavits were sub
mitted to the court ard filed Inasmuch
as they were obtained by the defense
at, comparatively speaking, the last
moment, the prosecution knew nothing
of them and were taken by surprise,
For this reason a continuance was al
lowed for one week to permit the prose-
cution to file counter affidavits
The most important affidavit is the one
made by Miss Cordelia Tilman, who was
one of the parties seated in the buggy,
the occupants of which ought to have
seen accurately what took place at the
time of the shooting, for they were near
enough This document is all the more
interesting as 1t bears very reasonable
semblance of truth. 1t was as follows:
Il, Cordelia Tilman, depose and say
that my testimony at the preliminary
trial of Chew Cow was given while l was
we'll and is all correct and true l was a
witness at the trial. but at the time l
gave my testimony l was sick and con-
fused and excited, but am satisfied that
I was mistaken when | testified that
Hammond Bell was the first person at
the scene of the shooting. Since being
told what l said at the trial am salts
fled l made a mistake about the time
when Hammond Bell got there, and
certain that the officer got there before
the young I1nglishman did. and l am
sure that Hammond Bel, at no time
touched the body of the Chinaman. /
make this statement in order that no
innocent man may suffer.
"CORDELIA TILMAN."
By this affidavit Miss Tilmans state
ment as to what took place at the time
of the shooting will more closely COM
port with that given by her companions
in the buggy. But Hammond Bell, the
young Englishman. gets hard knock
again by her resembling the statements
made by deposition during the trial.
Another affidavit is made by one j.
Price, and he seeks to prove an alibi for
Gong On Chung, the co-defendant of
Chew Wing Cow. He deposes and says:
That he was present with Gong On
Chong from about S:15 to D. m. on July
27; that he met his Chinese companion
at the barber shop in the Wilson block
and from there they went to the place
at the corner of Los Angeles and Second
streets. Upon leaving, at about 8
o'clock Gong On Chong walked south on
Los Angeles street and Price walked
west on Second street to the corner of
Second and Spring. He there saw some
police officers taking the body of a Chi
naman from the patrol wagon at the
police station. Price says that while he
and Gong On Chong were at 200 South
Los Angeles street there were two Chi
namen there and two or three white
men, and he maintains that Gong On
Chong was not on Alameda street when
it Is alleged Wong Chez was shot, be-
tween the hours of and 9 o'clock
Price gives as his reason for not COM
Ing forward and testifying at the trial
that he had known Gong On Chong only
as Charley" until after the conviction
of Chow Wing Cow, and did not learn
that he was held as a co-defendant until
that time.
In corroboration of this affidavit Chew
Hong makes affidavit that on July 27 he
was present with Gong Poi and Gong
On Chong at the southeast corner of Los
Angeles and Second streets from to 9
o'clock. At that time there were present
two white men whom he does not know
This witness kept silent for the reason
as he says that he expected to be called
as a witness in the case Of Gong On
Chong and did not know that his evil
dence would be material in the case of
Chow Wing Cow.
The last affidavit is made by Gong On
Chong, who is co-defendant with Chew
Wing Cow He testifies much the same
as Price, but says that after leaving
Price at Los Angeles and Second streets
he went south on Los Angeles street to
the place of Quong Ying Lung on Mar
chessault street. east of Alameda street,
and there remained until arrested for
shooting Wong Chez.
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