The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-02
DEEP CHINESE MIDDLE
Plots and Counter Plots in zee
Yen ENLIGHTENMENT Case.
RELATIVES OF THE ACCUSED
USE THEIR INFLUENCE.
Clever Scheming of His Sister-in-
Law, Mrs. King, ''Christianized"
China Woman-The Plotting May
eliminate a Counterpart to the
Little Pete Tragedy.

Chinese retribution, as unfolded in Salt
Lake. is every whit as keen-edged as the
refined cruelties of so-called justice in the
celestial empire, and zee Yen will be
made today to taste further of the acri-
mony laid up against him. In China zee
would have paid for his knavery with
his head, but in this land the criminal
code must be invoked as punishment.
Wong. Chung. Lung & Co. have filed an
other complaint in the police court,
which charges their unfaithful manager
with the theft of two diamond rings.
zee will be arraigned at o'clock. This
accusation. although not made directly
by the big Chinese firm, has been brought
a its instance.
Dun Fong, bookkeeper for the company
in the Salt Lake store has set forth the
statement which is relied upon to make
a sure case against the defaulter. The
uncommon interest shown by Wong,
Chun%, Lung & Co. is due to the eXecu-
ton of an attachment last Saturday, by
which the entire fixtures and stock of
that concern was sold out by the sheriff
by Yee's offerings. Not over $500 was
realized from the auction. but the al
lance of Wong, Chung, Lung and the
company are full of wrath, and d
consequence there has developed about
the livelieSt Chinese quarrel that has ever
disturbed the platitudeS of Plum alley.
the sparks continue to fly, there may be
another Little Pete episode in the alley
some of these clouded nights. zee Sing,
Chinese vice-consul at San Francisco, and
his nephew. Wah Ling of Phoebe. New,
have hurriedly returned to the city, and
now propose TO spend all kinds of money
to send zee Yen to the state prison.
FLEECED HIS RELATIVES.
Recent developments in the case show
that zee not only robbed those in whom
he had no personal interest. but relatives
were as literally fieeced. That portion of
the house of zee brought the attach
ments against the company. zee had
involved his former employers by max
1t is said that the $500 obtained for the
company's fixtures and stock will be de-
voted to the defense of zee by his pill
fered relatives. who do not want to see
him go to prison. even at the expense of
their pockets. The leading spirit in Yee's
cause is Mrs. C. H. King, sister-in-law
of the prisoner. She laid the scheme to
knock out Wong, Chung. Lung and COM
pany, and for this astute bit of strategy,
she has come to be cordially detested by
the alliance. In few words, il may be
said that Mrs. King. Chinese woman
born in this country, has cleverly out
witted Vice-Consul zee Sing. ExasDer-
ated beyond measure. the old Chinaman
is now turning the celestial heavens to
get even. He had intended to file new \
charges against zee Yen at intervals of
a week before his hearing in the district
court, but Mrs. King has bought off
nearly all of the victims and no oe-sua-
sion of the firm can induce the other
heathens to strengthen the cdse against
their incarcerated countryman. The gen.
orally understood antipathy of the Chi
nese to ask the assistance of Caucasian
courts may have had something to do
with this reluctance: at any rate Wong ,
and Chung and Lung are at their wits
end to circumvent the bold flank move |
nents of Mrs. King to avert the catas |
trophe seeming to imminently threaten
her brother-in-law. She has given Yee |
Sing the merry, merry ha, ha, and zee /
has taken to smoking more opium than /
ever ut his temporary quarters in the /
alley.
PAWNED THE DIAMONDS.
Unsuccessful in his endeavors to get |
anybody else to swear to other allega-
ions. ne has fallen back once more upon
Dun Fong. the bookkeeDer. VINO testified
N the first police court hearing. The
basis of the new complaint will be that
Fong Nun and Che Wah oawned two
diamond rings with Dun Fong just before
zee Yen decamped. They raised $50 on
he jewelry. and the bookkeeper placed
hem in q drawer to which no one but
zee Yen had access. The rings turned up
missing after zee decamped. but were
frs,o HI Nv 11air-