The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-15
is All SUE
A SLAVE?
TheHearing Before
Commissioned
Gill.
SAID SHE WAS
BOUGHT FOR 500
Chinese Merchant Claims Woman
as his Wife-Statement Made
to Commissioned Brown.

All Sue, the Chinese woman arrested
last week as a slave" was before
United States Commissioner Gill yester-
day on the charge of being Illegally
within the country. The matter was
submitted last evening, and decision
will be given Monday.
There was a scene in court in the aft
ernoon when Deputy Marshal Handy
started to take away Lum Fong. the
alleged husband. The woman, who had
been holding Lum Fongs hat, refused
to let it go, clinging desperately to the
head gear and to her husband. 1t was
finally explained to the woman that her
husband was not being taken to jail,
and she let him take the hat.
Lum Fong was the first witness put
on the stand by Brooks for the de-
Tense. He testified that he had lived
here for sixteen years and was mar
ried to the defendant eighteen years
ago in Canton. He further said that he
was a merchant, and had sent All Hee
to China to bring his wife and child
back, giving him $3.50 in gold to pay
expenses.
Upon cross-examination by Mr..
Breckons, the witness was rather be-
fuddled and made contradictory state
ments as to this marriage and business
here. He said that Wong 10y had ac-
companied his wife and child to Ho-
nolulu at his request.
Wong 10y testified that he had gone
to China to collect money due him, and
had invested it in rice plantations. In
Canton he had met the defendant for
the first time and was requested at
the store of Fook Sing Wo to accom-
pany the two women to Honolulu on
the City of Picking. He testified that
he had looked after the women on the
trip and took them to his house.
Adjournment was taken at five
o'clock to seven o'clock when Ii
Cheung, official interpreter, testified as
to letters received by Lam Fong from
All Sue, in which she said she wanted
to join him A portion of the letters
had been cut away. Lii Cheung testi-
fed that the woman had told him that
she was bought by Wong 10y for $50
in Canton, and that she was a stranger
to the other girl. She told him further
that Wong 10y had promised to marry
her, and that she had been staying
two months with Wong 10y, and COM
PEELED to be a prostitute.
A statement made by All Sue to J. K.
Brown was then read. This was in
substance as follows "My real name
is All Sue; don't know what name L
came here under. I am thirty-four
years of age; was married in China
but husband is dead.
II have been in Hawaii over two
I came from Hong Kong on
the S. S. Picking; was a second cabin
passenger and went to Quarantine ISL
and. One other Chinese person was
with me, Wong 10y. He
went to quarantine also. Yes there
was also another woman with u.s. She
took the name of All Foon after she
got here. Wong 10y gave me paper
on the steamer and told me that would
heard Wong 10y and another China
man whom 1 have since seen at Wong
Logs house talking. After that the
strange Chinaman told me l must say
Lum Fong was my husband. This was
before I was examined. When i was
examined by the white man, there was
a Chinaman present, the same l have
seen since at Wong Logs.
Il came ashore in a hack: Lum Fong !
came for me. I paid $40 Mexican for
passage. Wong 10y told me in China
hat I was to be his wife, when we got
mere, but at quarantine he told me to
say i was the wire OF LuIn fOnS. wong
10y told me he paid $50 for me in
China, and that 1 must now be a pros
itute to repay him for his expenses in
getting me here. So far as 1 know the
expenses were $50 and my passage
money, but Wong 10y told me that 1t
had cost over $1,000 to get the other
woman and myself here"
The testimony of Sheriff Chilling
worth and of the man from whom
Wong 10y had rented the house was
admitted and the defendant All Sue
vas then put on the stand. She said
hat she had been forced to make the
tatement by Policeman All On who
lad threatened to put her in jail for
fe if she didn't plead guilty.
F. NJ. Brooks opened for defense, Mr..
Sreckons arguing on the remarkable
obedience of Wong 10y leaving for
,hina on the same day that Lum Fong
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