The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-14
Two Cases so Much Alike That
They May be One.
CHINESE GIRL LEAVES HOME.
Supposed to Have Come Here Port
Surveyor Stratemeyer Makes an
Observation-Disclosures Actors and
One Girl Released Under Bonds.

There has been much gossip among
Chinese society on Washington and
Stockton street, San Francisco, recent
ly over the mysterious disappearance
of the pretty wife of a Chinaman en-
ployed in a foundry in Berkley. About
lian, who had covered himself with
histrionic fame in a Jackson street all
night theatre, quietly rolled his queue
and stole away to Elysian fields with
out leaving his address.
The San Francisco Chronicle devoted
much space to the affair and stated
that the matter had been taken in hand
by the Six Companies and that an
emissary of that organization had been
dispatched here to find the woman and
shanghai her on a vessel bound for
China where the friends of the bereav-
ed husband would proceed to separate
her head from her body with neatness
and dispatch.
Since the arrival of the China re-
porter for the Advertiser has been on a
still hunt for the heavy man in the
theatre who would presume to so far
breathe in the character of the stage
william as to carry it with him to the
home of his next friend and lure his
wife from her happy surroundings.
(Red fire and slow music)
In pursuing his investigation the re-
porter found that there has been re
Gently added to the cast at one of the
local Chinese playhouses three indi-
viduals whose physiognomies, collec-
lively and individually, would contrib
ute as much toward soaring away the
Woman in Black" as the entire police
force. To ascertain their pedigrees,
previous condition of servitude present
place or places of residence and social
relations was but the work of a mo-
ment and in few days he learned that
the three individuals accompanied by
a young and beautiful Chinese girl
garbed in European clothing arrived
here on the Mariposa of July 21. There
had been difficulty in bringing the
lady into the country on account of
difference between hers and the state
ment made by her reputed better half.
With this information in his hat
band the reporter called at the Custom
House and learned that when the Mari
posa arrived Tom Cooke, the boarding
officer, reported three Chinese male and
one female passengers were in the
steerage and there was something about
the actions of the woman that needed
investigating. Port Surveyor Strate-
meyer, who loves an investigation
better than anything he can think of,
walked up the gang plank and waded
in.
He found the girl, eminently pretty
and garbed in the latest North -of-Mar-
ket street gowns, puffed sleeves and
all that sort of thing, waiting to meet
some one in authority. She found her
ideal in George and promptly informed
him that she had fifty "alI right, all
right" This was little further along
than the point where George wanted
to begin, so he told her to luff.
The girl was on the purser's report
as Miss Tie" ticket 694O, and was reg
istered as having deposited $50 at the
office of Spreckels & Co.
The port surveyor was visibly i'm
pressed with the girls appearance, and
questioned her closely about herself