The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-13
OUR COSTLY CHINEE
Three Thousand Dollars Elk
pended on Ing Shing Sho's
Deportation.
Special to the Jersey CYty Nssos.

CAMDEN, MARCH 10, 1Sa7.-After a
brief, but pleasant sojourn of three
months i'm the UNITED States, Ing Shong
Sho is now on his way back to his home
in China, and the United States Govern
ment is olt just about $40 ing defied
the Chinese Exclusion act, struggled him
self yer the Canadian border, located at
Trenton, n was cutting quite a figure
in the Mongolian society of the Jersey cap
ital when the strong arm of the law
swooped down upon him and cut short
his meteoric career.
Incidentally, it may be mentioned hat
United States Marshal George Pleiffer,
Jr., of Camden, knows a good thing when
he sees it, 1t occurred to him that Ing
was a good thing. At the hearing before
Judge Fitzpatrick, In the United States
District Court, the Chinaman was sem
fenced to ba~nishmfat, and, under the law,
he must be escor. id out of the country
under guard.
Then Marshal Pfeiffer busted himself in
porting over timetables, in studying up
guide books, and specializing as ito the
probable outcome of the Corbett-Fitzsim-
mons fight. 1t was awful tough, he som
planned, to be forced ITO take a long trip
out to the Pacific coast with a pagan
Chinaman, but he didn't see any way tut
of 1T. The healthier had TO be sent back,
and that WAS all there was about it OF
course, he would have to a a deputy
marshal along. He couldn't be expected
to sit up all day and might watShing his
prisoner. That would be asking too
much.
Al his friends over in Camden quite
agreed that he would lave to take a
deputy. Mr.. Pfeiffer never realized be-
fore how many friends he had. They were
unwilling to see him undertake such a
long, tiresome journey alone, and every
ingness to sacrifice their time in order to
help him out. Finally Stanley Rusk was
sworn In as a special deputy, and three
man service, were purchased-one for Mr..
Pfeiffer, one for Mr.. Rusk and one fer
Ing Shong Sho. Mr.. Rusk is Mr., Pfeif-
fer's brOther-fn-law.
Thursday of last week. Ing seemed very
much impressed by the splendor of the
Pullman car, and especially with the col
reached its destination. Mr.. Pfeiffer pur-
chased a passage for his charge on one
coma and Canton, and Ing, who had sub
sisted entirely upon pie since leaving
Philadelphia. sailed away with the most
gained by a visitor to the land of the
free.
In speaking of the case yesterday one
Of the special Treasury Agents said
that the entire cost Of deeporting this s, one :
HE was the first Chinaman, to my
knowledge" remarked the official, ever
sent across the continent. why he
wasn't shipped from New York I don't
known I'll tell you a more remarkable
experience thar that. though. Some
time ago a Chinaman tried to smuggle
himself across from Canada by way OF
the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls.
He was stopped by the authorities on the
American side and sent back. When he
arrived at the Canadian side the officers
there refused to let him pass. Then he
crossed over to the American side again,
with the same result. For three days that
bridge to the other, with nothing to eat.
Finally the Canadian authorities per-
mitted him to return to their side, and
1T IS safe to say that he never tried to
get over the border again.