The San Francisco call., 1897-03-24
0UTW|TTEO THE
FEDERAL OFFICERS
Chinese Women Prisoners
Produce Landing
Certificates.
All but Three of Thirteen Sus.
poets Gathered in Mon.
day Released.
Msj,r Moore Learns That the Sam
Yups Kn.w of His Inten-
tions in Advance.

The crusade inaugurated by the treas
ury officials against the illegal landing Of
Chinese is not meeting with the success
its promoters hoped for. OF the thirteen
Chinese women held over from Mondays
raid by Captain Whitman and the police
force ten were discharged yesterday for
want of evidence. To make matters worse
habeas-corpus proceedings to secure the
release OF the remaining three were is
sued by Judge Carroll Cook, TO be heard
this morning at 10 O'Clock.
The imprisoned women spent Monday
night in a room in the upper floor of the
Presbyterian Mission Home at 920 Sacra-
mento street. They were rebellious and
sulky, and made the night air mournful
with their wailing.
When Special Agent Moore prepared to
file complaints again them yesterday
morning he was confronted with some un-
expected complications. Six OF the pris-
oners presented certificates of legal entry
duly signed and auth orized by Collector
Wise. Attorney Henry E. Monroe, who
was assisting the investigation on behalf
of the See Yup Society, and the Presby-
terian Mission, advised the release of this
contingent. The treasury officials con-
tinued their work only to come to the
conclusion that they could make but q
poor case against four more of the women,
and decided to release them.
This was decidedly discouraging. The
remaining three prisoners were put
through thorough examination, and
managed to contradict the selves in near
ly every statement. The treasury people
accordingly decided to hold them prison
ers for examination before United States
COM miss.oner Heacock. Complaints
charging them with being in the United
States in violation of the exclusion act
were filed in the United States District
Court by De Witt G. Jackson, special
agent of the treasury.
Scarcely had this been accomp plished
when counter move was made by the
''friends" of the imprisoned women. On
behslf of various Chinese merchants"
who were willing to swear that the pris-
oners were all born in this country, At
torney Robert Ferral secured writ OF ha-
beas corpus, directed against Miss Culbert-
son, the superintendent of the Mission
Home, com manding her to produc the
prisoners at 10 o'clock this morning in
Judge Cooks court. So there Is likely to
be lively fight for the possession Of the
women.
The names of the prisoners are Yai Lin
Oy, Chong Ngan Ying and Quan Yaw
Choy. They are young and good looking
from the Chinese point of view. Miss Gull
bertson offe red them a home in the mis-
sion If they preferred to remain there
rather than to return to tie dens on Bart
lett and Sullivan alleys, but her good
offices fell on dumb ears. The three
landed here on December % last, and
almost Immediately found their way into
the dens where Captain Whitman and his
police officers found them. They main
tain that they were all born in San Fran
cisco.
The next move of the Treasury Depart
ment will depend, in q measure, on the
success attending the attempt to deport
the three women now in the mission
home. It is understood the See Yups are
willing to cooperate with Major Moore in
this case, as they profess to see their old
enemy, the Sam Yups, behind the impor-
tation of the women. But it happened
that this alliance did not turn out as
profitable as expected. The treasury
agents have discovered that the news of
their intention to make Mondays raid
had preceded the police officers all over
Chinatown. It would seem that that
much talked of Custom house scandal is
still some distances off.