The San Francisco call., 1897-04-10
MSS LIN OY
TURNED LOOSE
Condemned by a Court to
Stay Here Unwill-
ingly,
Although She Says That She
Was Landed by Rank
Perjury.
Manner in Which the Chinese Ex.
clusion Act Is M de the Sub.
ject of burlesqus.

Mongolian perjury yesterday wiped out
the victory achieved by justice on the day
before by United States Commissioner
Heacock, when giggling Miss Ying was
remanded inlo custody for deportation to
China, by the discharge of two of her
chums who came over on the same
steamer with her.
One of those maidens, Wong Lin Oy,
was taken before Judge Heacock yester-
day for examination as to her right TO
land here. it being claimed by the Govern
ment that the testimony given before
Collector of the Port Wise on which she
had been permitted TO land was false, and
that instead OF being native of San Fran
cisco she was native of China, and there
fore excluded by the act Of Congress-
|. 1t appears that after Miss Wong Ling
Oy was landed, she and fifty nine others
were found to be leading immoral lives in
Chinatown. They were taken TO the Chi
nese Presbyterian Mission, where Miss Oy
said that she was q native of China, had
never been in the United States before,
and that the testimony on which she had
been admitted TO this country was per-
jured. She fatty contradicted everything
10 which she had sworn before Collector
Wise.
When this fact came to the knowled ge
of the United States authorities Special
Inspector De Witt c. Jackson swore to q
complaint against the three score maidens
and they were arrested. 1t has now passed
into history that they were allowed TO
land, with three exceptions, including the
siggling Ying. Alter these arrests were
made Inspector Jackson and other officers
secured the Chinese quarter in vain for
the Witnesses who swore that some of the
pat, nf Ga, ErancioD1 nd
that the remainder were entitled to land
on other grounds. But they failed to find
solitary one OF the Chinese shopkeepers
and merchants who had appeared child
like and bland before Collector Wise and
who had sworn to the thin gs that were n oil.
SO when the giggling Ying last Thurs
day and the oleaginous Oy yesterday were
tried before the United States Commits
sioner brand new lot of Chinese swear
ers were IL attendance. They sWore that
Miss Oy was a native of San Francisco;
that they knew her father, and so forth
Notwithstanding the fact of her denials in
the Presbyterian Mission. She was not
called as a witness herself, because she
was the defendant and she could mot be
compelled to testify against herself. Her
statements made in the mission were not
corroborated, while there were half
dozen witnesses who swore otherwise.
The Commis sioner accordingly decided
tndt he would recommend Miss OyS dis-
charge. HIS action was approved by the
United States Attorney, who moved, also,
that the same action be taken regarding
the other defendant. The motion was
granted, and Judge Morrow made an order
in the afternoon releasing The women.
After she was arrested she denied
every thing that she had sworn TO before
the Collector" said Commissioner Hea-
cock to CALL reporter yesterday. They
brought in the affidavits made before the
Collector, and then the question was
when d id she tell the lie?' There was no
testimony whatever TO corroborate her
contradiction, and there was no alterna-
tive but to discharge her."
1t will be interesting to watch the prog
ress OF the case against the two Chinese
women detained at the Presbyterian mis-
sion as witnesses against Miss Yins One
of them swore that she and the Ying
woman were born in China and had led