The oasis., 1901-08-31

NtDD Cdlnt JD luy uOuSt dUU dSk you want JU shoot deer. say yes He tell me get my pistol, and ne got d lunch and some beer. He drive aoout all hour He borrow my pistol and shoot off all my cartridges Then he point his own pistol aJ my head and make me get down i0 the buggy. lie drive down the Santa Cruz and across the line. Me met Dickey and Hatha. way lpointlng to the two officers) and they put ircus on my leg. l ask what the matter: They ask me. You visit MT. uOey?' l say mo sif.n They ask MT hOey come LoA our hOuse?' l say no STD They took me to house on ! this side of the line, and kept me there ever since. l wanted to go back to | Mexico. 1 have in NOgales, Sonora, a ! laundry, a tailor shop and shirt fac tory. Sometime come across the line: 1 but always get permission trst at the Custom House.
 The defence objected to admission Of testimony, as the witness was under coercion and duress. Taken under adyIsement. Recess for dinner.
 Alter recess, Judge Williams of he defence, renewed hls objection to wit
 
 ground that his presence in court had been obtained by fraud and force; by violation of law, both national and international; that he had been illegal lY and fraudulently kept under duress, away from the defence, so they had no opportunity to know what would be hls evidence; and that he is prohibit ed chiCese subject, unlawfully within the U. 5.
 Judge Rouse also made an impassion- ed address going iLto the allegation that Weob had kidnapped How and brought him over the line, scathingly denOuncng Webb as a yiOlator of law and of solemn treaty with friendly foreign pOwer,-an instrument high tr than the constitution itself The speaker recalled the ArviZu case, some nine or ten years ago, where Colonel Arvizu of tue mexican army crossed a file of soldiers into Nogales, Arizona, took lorclble possession of the person of a woman aud carried her back to Nogales, Sonora. He related how the UnlCed States government resented the violation of it's territory, how General Miles sent military force to Nogales,
 
 gised, court martialed and dismissed ArviZu from the army, aod sentenced him to a long term Of imprisonment which he served.
 The commissioner ruled out How's testimony on the grounds presented by Judge Williams, to which ruling MT. McLemOre presented a most vigorous and powerful protest.
 The next witness was Lee Kim lthe Clifton chinaman) who was first quest toned by Judge Williams as to bis competency as witness. He testitied: Am native of China living in Sonora. Have been in United States eight days. A chinese inspector say ne want to see me at lioe. l come to line. He say Mir. Freeman, costum house, ted to see me. 1 say l cannot come. 1 was afraid. He said II am chinese Inspec- tor, and nobody shall touch youn So 1 cross line and he take me way up to house, Put me ia room One man kept a pistol. 1 want to go back, but not let me. Chinese Inspector point pistol at me. Don't see him here. Que man tpOinJlng to Dlckey) ask me if know Hoey, if Hoey ever do business with me l say mo sir.n They take me way out to another house. put irons on my feet. Next morning Geo. Webb come to see me in room. He say 1 had better confess, l tod him I don't know anything against MT Hoey
 Mn McLemore objected to the line'of questioning as not tending to develop the competency of the witness.
 The court held that the man is file gally in the country, and unless under arrest on that charge was not con- petent to testify.
 McLemore said that he would prove that witnesses How and Kim came vol 
 The court asked that such proof be made.
 Webb was recalled and testifed Went to How's residence about l0:30 d. m. Told him 1 was going over to Santa Cruz and invited him to go. He accepted. He drove southeasterly to Santa Cruz river, about fifteen miles