The herald., 1896-10-21
The Prosecution Trying to I'm.
peach q Law Officer
X.RAY EGG.TESTING SCHEME
Gets H. q, Williams Into the Clutches of
the Law
Rose Dearden Priest Wants to Be Relieved Of
Her Husband
The Vernon District Institutes Suit
Against the Board Of Education
to Decide the Ownership
Of School Lot.

Of a School Lot
Mongolians Of varied shapes and sizes
and Of varying degrees of color and So
cial standing filled Judge Smiths court
room yesterday.
The silk bloused aristocrat with fin
ger nails two inches long sat cheek by
jowl with the poor fellow who with un-
shaven scalp, works hard for a living
and has no aristocratic superfluity of
finger nails.
There have been several very curious
circumstances in connection with the
trial of Chew Cow, or big Jim," and
some Of these will, very likely, receive
accentuation as the defense proceeds
further with its case. In the first place
the police officers generally play first
lead" for the prosecution in an ordinary
murder trial. But the trial of big Jim"
is not an ordinary trial, and while two
of the officers who had more or less cog
nizance of the facts in connection with
the murder were not called at all by the
prosecution, an attempt was made
yesterday to impeach the testimony of
the third-Police Officer Lennon, who
was the second person, according to the
theory of the prosecution, that reach
ed the side of Wong Chez after he had
been shot. Thus the picture is being
presented Of subordinate law officers be-
ing practically enlisted on the side of the
defense.
Then again the two ladies and gentle
men who were in the carriage and saw
the murder committed, have not been
put upon the witness stand by the pro-
secution, albeit they must by the very
necessities of the case know some
thing about it. Mr.. and Mrs. Haislip and
! Miss Tillman were hard people to find
and the prosecution appeared, before
| the trial began, to be as anxious as the
defense to find them. Detective George
Gard was sent north to Stockton to fer
ret out the Haislips and finally did SO.
but 10 and behold, when they arrived
! they were given the go-by by the prose-
| cution and, it is said, will testify in be-
| half of the defense OF course they may
be impeached, but the attempts made
| so far in this direction have not been
brilliantly successful, and in any case
the curious fact remains that those who
ought naturally to be the strongest wit
nesses for the prosecution are being ar
raigned on the side of the defense.
Yesterday morning Police Officer Len
non kept his seat upon the witness stand
for about an hour. His testimony was
to the effect that when he turned from
Apablasa onto Alameda street and saw
the body of man lying on the sidewalk
on the other side of the street no one
was around. This gave the lie direct to
| Hammond Belt tile medical student
who testified that he was by the wound
ed mans side monkeying at amateur
surgery with his finger in Wong Chees
mouth when Lennon arrived in the
| scene.
| While Lennon was tending the wound
| ed man and the crowd was gathering the
| officer stated yesterday that Big jim
| came up and asked him who had been
| shot, and did not act like man who
| had Just few moments previously fired
| a bullet into the body of the man he was
| inquiring about.
| During the cross examination Attor-
| ney Appel had sharp tilt with the wit
ress. He inquired of him if he had not
had conversation with a Chinaman
| when it had been intimated that a Ger
| tain sum of money would be his under
| certain circumstances.
The witness indignantly repudiated
| the insinuated charge and added.
| Neither you nor any other man dare in
| sinuate such thing outside this court :"
W
about to make retort when JudgeSmith
| called him and also the witness sharply
| to order. Attorney Appel with a great
| flourish then read the report of Officer
Lennon, made to his superiors at the
| time of the tragedy. 1t was mere re-
sumo of what he had testified to more
| than once.
| The defense then put upon the stand
several of the Chinese musicians who
were playing in the room where the pro-
| secution alleges Chew Cow sought ref
| uge. and where he was seen to stow
away his pistol in his bunk.
| Chew Wee was the first witness put
| forward and was a fair sample of the
| rest. He stated that he and the other
| musicians were playing and singing on
| the night of the murder, in the upstairs
room at the corner Of Marchessault and
| Alameda streets. big JIM and anoth-
er man We're on the bed smoking opium.
When the report of the pistol shot was
heard big Jim" looked through the
window and then turned to the players
, and told them to stop the music Then
the police whistle was heard and all the
Cinnamon went down stairs to see what
the trouble was. Until that time "Bis
Jim" had not left the room.
Gus Rasing, one of the walters in the
Basket saloon, testified as follows:
About half past eight lay partner and
| hSolo o. cuOt, duu He anu 1, with the
patrolman, Lyman, ran UP the street
We saw Chinaman stagger with out
stretched hands against the wall and
then fall down. At the same time we
saw another Chinaman disappear
through the door of the store almost ir
front Of the one where the mar
lay. When we first got there nc
one else was in sight except q
man and two ladies seated in a. car.
riage about twelve feet away. Short
ly after noticed man standing on the
corner OF Marchessault street and Ly.
man, who had gone into the store, blown
the police whistle and Police Officer Len.
non rushed up I did not see a small.
sized Englishman wearing glasses. anf
II he had been there I certainly would
have seen him. Officer Lennon was tn,
first man to put hand on the body o.
Wong Chez.
1.-THE Chinaman that disappeared II
the store was not very tall but heav,
set. He was not go tall as Big Jim,
but was quite broad. When he disap
peared into the store Lyman FOLLOWED
him moment or two later"