The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-03
TRYING TOSQUELCH 1T
JUDGE GALLICK's FRIENDS APP
PEALING TO UNITED STATES
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
THAT CHINAMAN AFFIDAVIT
Wholesome Terror Among Certain
People Lest the Facts Be Present.
ed to the Next Grand Jury-Attor-
ney George Walsh, Who Prepared
the Affidavit, Says He Was Acting
for Chinese Agent.

A further investigation by the federal
authorities has disclosed the Tact that for
several years an organized system has
been in operation in st. Paul for the pur-
pose of furnishing Identification papers
to Chinese who were DESTROYS of re-enter-
ing the country. The extent cf this "un-
derground railroad has not yet been as
certained owing to the fact that no record
IS kept at the customs office of papers is
sued to the chink merchants except the
few that have applied directly to the Of
flee. Assistant United States District At
torney Purdy, to whom the matter has
been referred by District Attorney Evans
is bustly at work pursuing his investiga-
ton into the Lee Foy case which was
brought to light recently through the dis
cOTery that he vas attempting to enter
the country upon false Identification pa
pers that proved to have been signed by
Court Commissioner GaIIick, George Col
ter special clerk employed in the coun-
ty abstract Office, and James Cormican,
the police court lawyer. II has been de-
veloped through a peculiar train of cir
cumstances that not only did the fdenti-
f1cation paper given Lee Foy state a con-
dition Of facts that never existed, but
the document had been tempered with
after having been signed and acknowI-
edged.
It appears that, according to Court
Commissioner GaIlick, he was approached
about five months ago by George Walsh.
the attorney who presented papers set
ting forth that one Lee Foy had been en-
gagged as merchant on Minnesota street
between Fifth and Sixth streets for over
a year. This was accoE panied by d
photograph and GaIlick affixed his sig
nature and made affidavit as a witness
to the fact of Foy's residence Other
signatures were affixed by George Golfer
and James Cormican and the signatures
with the exception Of that of Golfer, were
acknowledged by Ed Dahl, as a notary
public. Under ordinary circumstances
duplicate copies are made of the identi-
fcation papers and one given to the
Chinaman and the other sent to the coll
lector Of the port through which the Ce-
lestial will return. In this case it ap-
pears, acting under a Misrepresentation,
Walsh filed his duplicate with the local
collector
Recently Foy attempted to enter the
country by way Of Portal. N. D., and pre-
sented to the collector at that place his
Identification The fact that the duplicate
was not on file aroused the suspicious OF
the collector, who sent the papers and ac-
companying afffdsVits to Special Agent
Grain, of the treasury department, for in
vestigation. A comparison Of the papers
showed that since the aff1davits were
signed a change had been made in the
original copy by the addition of the num-
Der. 20 Minnesota street as the location
of Foy's place of business, and In addi-
ton to the words tea merchant the type
written line $4,000 worth of tea" On Wis
iting the place where the store was sup
posed to be located Agent Grain found
q notion store and pursuing his invasti-
cation further located the previous tenant
who had occupied the building from the
time 1t was built uphill the notion store
moved in.
This states of affairs caused Agent
Grain to turn the matter over to the dis
trict attorney, who will probably lay the
case before the next grand jury. Court
Commissioner GalIick, one Of the signers
of the affidavit, declares that he signed