The herald., 1898-11-29
HUNG YET SUEY
Appeal of a Chinese Woman From
Sentence of Deportation

Hung Yet Suey is only a diminutive,
brown, almond-eyed Chinese woman, at
tired in the loose, flowing silk garments and
black trousers that are la mode among
the women of her country, but she has con-
trived to absorb considerable time and at
tention in the United States courts in the
past six months.
Hung was arraigned before United States
Commissioner Van Dyke on June 25, last,
with two other Chinese females, all charged
with being in the country in violation of
the exclusion act. The examination was
held July % and the evidence was such. in
Huug's case, that the commissioner took the
matter under advisement. 1t was reopened
by request OF Inspector j. d. Putnam in
July. set for October 10 and continued till
the l7th and again taken under advisement
till October 2S at which time she was or
dered deported November 5. Notice OF ap
peal was filed and trial set for the 2Sth be-
fore Judge Wollborn.
Among the witnesses yesterday for Hung
were Wong Fong DR.. Fung Tip Sam, Mrs.
Long Chung and Mrs. Fung Sin. The de-
fense claims that Hung was bornain San
Francisco and was taken to China when
young Mrs. Fung testified through the in
terpreter that she was the bearer of money
and a letter from Hung's father in San
Francisco to her in ST Sing village in China,
where she was staying. The chain of evil
dence woven by the defense was quite in
genious and cleverly contrived and may be
difficult to break
DR.. j. +. Gardner of San Francisco, in
structor of the Chinese language in the
state university. who was born in China
OF American parents, was put on the stand
as an expert on Chinese characters in sig
natures placed in evidene.
Hung Yet Suey is 90 years old. so small
of stature and infantile of face she appears
much younger than the years she testified
to on the stand She is one of the hun
dreds OF Chinese slave girls imported by her
countrymen to America to fill brothels and
lead lives thousand-fold worse than other
Hundred evils under the American flag, bad
as they may be- When Hung arrived at San
Francisco Chinaman appeared and claimed
to be her father, presenting the customary
affidavit. The different parts of his story
corresponded and she was allowed land
ing. The girl was taken to what is called
family house" which is house kept by
q woman with cnlluren 10 give II reputa-
bic appearance, but is merely half-way
place between the ship and the brothel.
From there she was sold by the procuress
and her purchaser, fearing exposure in San
Francisco, sent her to Los Angeles. where
she was discovered by Inspector Putnam
and arrested in June last.
A Chnaman claiming to be her father.
and to be the one who presented the aft
davit when she landed is now seeking to get
the girl. The officials suspected he was not
the same man who claimed her in the first
place, questioned him closely and found
that he could not relate any of the circunl-
stances occurring at that time, nor account
for himself in the meantime. The charac-
tiers in evidence were two of his signatures
and one of the first claimants, which DR.
Gardner pointed out were not the same.
Dr. Gardner has been so persevering and
earnest in his efforts to break the importa-
ton of Chinese slave girls at San Francisco
that he received warning from the high
binders recently that he had better desist
if he wanted to save his life.