The herald., 1896-12-01
|lHlT CHINESE PUZZLE
Miss C0rdelia Tillman's
Veracity Attacked
STRONG CIRcOMSTAN1|AL DETAILS
Straight Charge Of Perjury Pre-.
ferred Against Her
LUCK FOR THE NOTED "KID"
The Roscoe Train Robber to Have .
New Trial
A Jeblst sf tie City Banks Assets Sold
Yesterday
County Supervisors to Confer Today-A
Hung Jury in the Times" Libel
Case-Strong Dissenting Su-
Straight Charge Of Perjury Pre-.
fefred Against Her
LUCK FOR THE NOTED "KID .
The Roscoe Train Robber to Have .
New Trial
A Jeblst sf Tie City Banks Assets Sold
Yesterday
County Supervisors to Confer Today-A
Hung Jury in the Times" Libel
Case-Strong Dissenting Su-
preme Court Opinions.


preme Court Opinions.
Is lying q science or an art? In some
respects 1t seems to partake of certain
characteristics peculiar to both.
At all events, those who have been d.
rectly interested in the final outcome of
the Chew Wing Cow case, wherein that
| Celestial, who is known to his familiars
as Big Jim, was convicted in department
one of having murdered the aristocrat;c
Wong Chez, the leader of a tong oppo-
site to that to which the convicted man
belonged, will now be able to decide upon
the intricate niceties of perjured testi-
mony.
No sooner had the trial of Big Jim been
concluded than Miss Cordelia Tillman,
one of the important witnesses for the
prosecution, and the only eye witness
they put forward by that side who had
seen the shooting of Wong Chez, on Ala
media street, made an affidavit wherein
she repudiated what she had said upon
the trial, and gave such details that, if
true, would in all probability have re-
suited in a new trial being accorded Big
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several others made by other parties.
The prosecution had had mine
sprung upon them and the court granted
time for them to counter mine, and
they did.
The next batch of afiidavits were fur
nished by the prosecution and con-
tanned another affidavit made by Miss
Cordelia Tillman, wherein she repudi-
ated the affidavit made before the de-
fendant's attorneys in which she had
twice repudiated her testimony given
at the trial.
This embroglio Of cross-swearing was
reached yesterday when LIE Compte Da
Wis, of counsel for the defense, filed an
other batch of affldavits In court, which
makes most Interesting reading. OF
these, perhaps, his own is the most in
teresting. In It a detailed and circum-
stantial account Is given of Miss Till
mans visit to the law offices Of Davis
which she made her voluntary state
ment; This affidayit Of Mr.. Davis reads
MISS TILLMAN CONTRADICTED
That he is one of the attorneys for
the defense In the case of the people VS..
Chow Wing Cow, and has been since
the time of the preliminary examina-
ton of said defendant. Atfiant says that
on the 18th day of November, 1886, about
4 p. M, Cordelia Tfllman came to his
office with Mrs. Caroline Haizlip. Miss
Tillman and Mrs. Haizlip came into the
room where affiant was at work; that
affiant spoke to them and asked them to
be seated; that after a few moments
desultory talk af1iant asked them if there
was anything he could do for them. Miss
Tillman replied that she had come to
speak with affiant about the testimony
that she had given at the trial of China
man Chew Wing Cow: that what she
had testified to was all wrong and false.
and that she wished to correct it If she
could without getting herself into seri-
GUS trouble: and that since the trial she
had worried q great deal over her tes-
timony and that she thought that she
had helped to convict an innocent man
by her false testimony; it troubled her
a great deal and that she couldn't help
but think Of 1t In the night time and that
she wished to do what was right about
1t and get it off her mind, and that she
had come to tell afiant the truth about
1t, but that she did not want affiant to
put her on the stand, and affiant told
her then to 60 on and tell the whole
truth about 1t. and that she need make
no written statement about it unless
she wished to; that thereupon Miss Till
man voluntarily, of her own free will
and accord, said that her testimony Civ
en- at the trial of the case was all wrong
and false; that she did not remember
at that time or at the time she gave her
testimony of having seen Hammond
Bell at any time on the night of the
shooting. Miss Tillman said further that
she knew and had all the time known
that the red-headed policeman was the
first person to arrive at the body of the
wounded Chinaman, and that she was
positive that no one except the said Off
Ger touched the body of the wounded
Chinaman at any time prior to the ar
rival of the patrol wagon; that Hammond
Bell did not lift up the head of the
wounded Chinaman at any time and
that she would have seen him il he had
done so; that the first time she had ever
seen Hammond Bell was at the prelim-
mary examination. She said that she had
sworn falsely when she testified that Mr..
Haizlip had told her that he had been
to the Jail and had seen the Chfnaman
and that big Jim" was the right Chi
naman who had done the shooting. Am
ant says that Miss Tillman at the same
time told him many other things about
her testimony which, at her request. he
promised not to and does not repeat.
"Amant says that Mrs. 2aizlip was
present during the greater portion of the
above conversation; that when Miss
Tiilman told affiant she told him volun-
tarily and Of her own free will, without
solicitation Of affiant. and that afflant
USED no Inducements. trick or force or
artifice Of any kind whatever to procure
! Miss Tillman to come to his office or
| tell her story as above set forth: that
afiant had no idea she was coming to
his ofiice prior to the moment she came.
| Afhant at no time told her he wished to
ask her few questions, and she at no
time during said conversation said that
Hammond Bell was the first person that
reached the wounded Chinaman; that
she at no time said to Carrie Haizljp.
Z wish to go home" or anything to that
erect. Afiiant at no time took said
Tillman by the arm or elsewhere or nut
her IN a chair or elsewhere. Aff1ant aid
not at said time, or ever. tell Miss Til1-
man that Hammond-Bell had been to
see affiant and had told affiant with
his own mouth that he (Hammond- -Belll
was not the first man there, or anythine
to that effect. Miss Tillman at no time
said to afilant, Il might have been ex-
cited, but know every word said, and
II they have the trial over again shall
testify Just the same as did on nv
bed. Amant further says that afte,
Miss Tillman had made the Statement
4 aboxe eet forth TO him on the 11tll day
Q1 November, 1896 afIiant asked Mi
i 4HlHzeu q let him reduce II 20 wrfting
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