The herald., 1897-09-01
LITTLE CUE TING
HER PRECIOUS PERSON Is I'M
DISPUTE
Arrested for Having No Certificate
But One Is Produced
in Court

| Flstalls SWarmed about the federal
building yesterday and almond soft
footed heathens filled all the benches out
side the railing in the courtroom while
within sat United States COMMISSIONS er
Van Dyke, United States District At
torney Finlayson, Chinese Inspector
Putnam, the little prisoner Cue Ting
and her counsel, r. A. Ling. and a few
witnesses.
Cue Ting's story has been 80 recently
| and so widely circulated there is no need
to reiterate all the narrowing details
here. Suffice it to say that the Wong
faction having acquiredI her in the usual
way, and for goodiy sum, naturally
took 1t as personal affront when her
| royal Celectiallets married in good
American fashion member of a rival
tong. suddenly she was arrested,
charged with having no certificate, be-
ing, in consequence, Illegally in the coun-
try and fit subject for deportation.
Last week when the prisoner was taken
| before the commissioner to be examined.
it was made known that a certifica te
| made out in the name of Chow Kun. but
otherwise fitting Cue Ting, had been
discovered in San Francisco; but the
| case was carried over and nothing def
mite was done, although there were ru-
mors of a possible financial compromise.
Yesterday when the case came up to be
carried to finish thing as nearly ap-
preaching an expression of interest as
ever gains access to Chinese face was
apparent on number of those in the
audience, and big and little old and
young, and all degrees of ugliness sat
and listened with stolid dogged atten-
tion-all but one.
Wong Tong, the head of the faction
that bears his name, the ex-owner of the
little prisoner, and apparently a very
shrewd and active agency in aiding and
abetting the prosecution, was keen
ly watchful with a smooth velvety
alertness Of every move in the game;
making suggestions, nodding, even
chuckling when things seemed to be go
ing as he wished. Again, winding him
self around the corner of table, he put
his head on his arms, closed his eyes,and,
was the picture of a fat, comforta bic
mandarin-but he wasn't asleep-nay,
nay. He was very much alive to every
passing incident.
Inspector Putnam first testified that
he had arrested Cue on the 4th of Aug
ust because she had no certificate; that
she produced none, had none on her per-
son and that moreover, he hadn't asked
her for one. This last was in answer to
| direct cross-question from Counsel
r. A. Ling. Joe Sanders and two China
men, Wong King and Charlie Chung,
all testified with unanimty as to the
| fact that the prisoner had desired them
severally to procure for her certificate
because she had none; and they all main
tanned their testimony stoutly through
Mr.. Ling's cross examination, and dur
| ing the latter process each and every one
| admitted cautiously certain amount of
atfiliation with the Wong faction.
| Mr.. Ling then made a motion, the
prosecution having rested, that. as the
government had not produced any con-
vincing evidence that the prisoner had
| no certificate she should be discharged.
| The motion was denied. Then Mr.. Ling
further moved that she be discharged
on the grounds that the government had
| her certificate in its possession. Also
denied.
| Cue was therefore put in the witness
chair and questioned through an inter-
prefer concerning the certificate (Which
| was then producedD, her early life and
all that had happened to her, since, and
| through it all and the cross-queStioning
| that followed she gave straight, simple,
direct answers that orroborat e d, reason
| ably well the statements in the cer-
tificate and were not contradictory to
one another.
The only open question left seemed to
be her height. The certificate said one
| thing, Inspector Putnam, in rebuttal,
said another, and as four o'clock ap-
preached the court and attorneys agreed
| to meet the inspector and prisoner at
| the Jail this morning and have a meas
uring bee. The photograph on the GER
| tiflcate was very carefully compared
with the prisoner, scar on the fore
head was examined through magni-
| flying glass by the court, the attorneys
and all concerned admitting the re-
| semblance, and although adjournment
was taken and the little prisoner sent
back to Jail, decision will doubtless be
reached this morning.