The herald., 1898-02-10
Chinese Woman With Two
Celestial Husbands
THE STORY oy SUE YING
TWICE MARRIED IN THIS CITY
BY MARRIAGE LICENSE
Hers the First Case on Record-Firsi
It Was All Wing and Then Tom
Wo--Court Calendar

In 1892 Miss Sue Ying, who was bori
in China, was a charming almond-eyet
young lady, who believed that she wa
then 10 years of age. At any rate, sh
persuaded All Wing, a Chinese mer
chant Of this city, that she was not older
and it made no difference anyway, a:
All Wing was desperately smitten will
Sue Ying's beauty.
All Wing is a man who believes II
doing in Rome as the Romans do ant
in 'Melica as the "'Melican mans" do
and therefore, when he proposed mar
riage to the handsome Sue, he sug'
gested that 1t be by a marriage license
The lady agreed, and the wedding cere
mony was performed on December Is
1892, by Superior Judge B. N. Smith
All Wing gave his age as 30, but thai
must have been stretch of imagina.
ton, as he certainly at that time haG
a few more years to his credit.
Nothing Of Importance marred the
welded life of Mr.. and Mrs. All Wing
and the sense of his security, as well
as the duty Of visiting his aged parents
In the Yellow Empire and attending tc
matters of business in the province OF
Kwang Tung, induced him to leave Sue
behind in Los Angeles, while he did
obeisance to the household gods and the
shrine of Confucius in his native village
far beyond the sea.
1t was only a little over year age
that All Wing took his departure, and
he stayed away no more than eleven
months, but it was long enough to al
low Chinese Faust, in the person of
Tom Wo, to appear upon the scene and
steal away the heart of the half-moon-
eyed Marguerite. When Mr.. Wing re-
turned his wife (yet not until he had
found 1t out for himself) told him cold
ly that she loved him no more, but was
captivated by the manly beauty of a
younger man, and she positively de-
clined to live any longer with her law
full welded old Ah Wing. Thereupon
she deserted the mansion in Chinatown
where once she and the old man had
billed and cooed, and it's inmates knew
her no more.
The crafty Tom Wo was ''boss" on
therailroad out in the Soledad valley,
and only visited this city when his nu-
merous duties permitted it. He would
fain have carried off his inamorata to
the camp with him forthwith, after she
had decided to go back on the marital
vows made to All Wing, but Mrs. Wing
had an idea that there was a virtue in
this "malliage license medicine" that
would be of aid to them if they went
through another Mclean ceremony of
similar character to that performed
by Judge Smith.
Nothing 10th. Tom Wo procured the
services OF a man who applied for a
license at the county clerks office on
October SOth of last year, whereby Wo
was permitted to marry Sue Ying, who
had only grown two years older since
her first venture. five years previously.
as her age was registered at 81. They
were married on the same day by the
Rev. Pinal Dodd, a Presbyterian clergy
man of this city, and then nothing fur
ther being in the way of the enjoyment
of love In railroad camp, they took the
train and went to live at such an in
stitution somewhere between Ravefna
and Acton, where they now are.
In the meantime All Wing was tear
Ing at his que and, figuratively speak
ing, covering his somewhat attenuated
form with sackcloth and ashes. But
while appealing to the gods to give him
chance to recover his tickle wife, he
was not unmindful that the gods of
China only help those who help them
selves, and he engaged the services of
detectives, both white and yellow. to
locate his lost Sue.
When they did so they found that she
was remarked. and that she was also
the first Chinese woman in the United
States who had ever committed bigamy
a proud distinction. no doubt. but one
which carries with it a drawback in tbe
shape of term in the penitentiarv. if a
conviction is secured.
1t would be useless to picture tha ro.a
IL the deluded Ah Wing when he re-
,elVed the news. The sackcloth and
ashes came out of the disused closet
again, and he was only kept from nerv-
ous prostration by unlimited cups of
lea. Having learned that the deceitful
and heartless woman $50 far as he was
had laid herself amenable To
he laws of this justly outraged COM
nonwealth, nothing but speedy revenge
would satisfy him, but always 'Melican
Ah Wing wants no hatcbet-
men, no highbinders, to make a Jolly
little corpse out of Sue Ying: what he
wants Is to see her in the penitentiary
aundry doing "washee-wa washee" for the
remainder of her natural life. He is
aware that he holds a hand that beats
al the trumped-up charges by means
II which Cinnamon usually recover their
human chattels, and he is going to plav
t up to the limit.
1t Will therefore be nothing extraordi-
nary II the lovely Sue figures shortly 6
oeIendant in committing court S
ne star Chinese defendant, with one
lusband signing impotently while the
'ther just looks uglier than ever he
'ause ne Is unable to hide the sweet
'eVenge look which glitters in his al
eyes.
RAISING CHICKENS