The San Francisco call., 1903-09-20
Chinese Substitution Scandal Brings Death to One Man
by His Own Hand and Occasions Arrest of Three Others
THREE JAILERS ARE IN CUSTODY,
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They said that they had been obliged
to take Gamble into the scheme and allow
him 20 become a shsrer in the proceeds
for two reasons; first. because it was Diff
hcult to obtain substitutes in all cases
who looked sufficiently like the genuine
TO pass for them even on a superficial eH-
amina ton, and second, because Gamble
became suspicious on one occasion and re-
marked to Dasha, Don't try to do that
again.
The prisoners were taken yesterday
afternoon TO the office of the United
States secret service in the Appraisers
building and were transferred to the City
Prison last evening after the newspaper
men had become acquainted with the
facts Bail was set at $4,000 each and it
was stated that the men would furnish
bonds on Monday morning.
MARSHAL SHINES STATEMENT.
United States Marshal Shine made the
following statement last evening;
After Sheriff Lackmann and our party had
arrested the men we took them TO q private
place and then one by one into a room in or
Ger TO get statements from them. 1t took a
long while to do this. but one by one they
broke down and gave Us the whole story.
They told US in detail how the suostitutons
were made A Chinaman would come TO the
Jail in the night on their shift with the sub
stitutes. and the real prisoners would be al
captain Of the shift and his place was at the
front door: Dasha was in the upper corridor,
ana Dempsey was his associate. Two hundred
dollars for each Chinese thus allowed 10 es-
cspe was the fixed price Of which Gamble re-
ceived one-third and the three jailers the re-
nlainder Gamble was not in the combination
originally. They made II a point to get sub
stitutes resembling the Chinese 'in the jail so
that there would be less chance Of any acci-
dental detection.
When asked as to the status of Hack
man Tom Martin, who drove Gamble and
his substitutes in his hack from the APP
praisers' building to the Mail dock, Mr..
Shine declared very earnestly that Mar
tin was "as straight as a string" that
Gamble had said the same thing, that
the Federal authorities believed him to
be thoroughly honest and altogether
blameless in the matter and that Dasha,
Burnett and Dempsey had exonerated
the old hackman from any suspicion OF
having been connected with them.
SUBSTITUTION OUTSIDE.
Mr.. Shine proceeded to explain further
that on only two occasions were substi-
tutions made outside the jail; one being
some months ago, when two men were
substituted by Gamble between the jail
and the steamer, and on Friday, the 11th
of the present month, when six Chinese
were substituted at the Appraisers
DuliOlnB. On tnlS punt, ne Sdlu, Oahi-
ble's confession was that he took the six
original Chinese prisoners from the jail
and allowed them to escape on Broadway,
near Sansome. Then he proceeded alone
TO the Appraisers building, where ne
found the six substitutes in waiting.
These he placed in the prisoners room
of the AIarshars Office and afterward took
them downstairs and placed them in Mr..
Martins hack. The reason for making
the substitution outside of the jail was
that Jailer Burnett was absent on the
previous evening and an outside Deputy
Sheriff was detailed to take his place.
Dasha and Dempsey therefore did not
care 10 risk making the substitution un-
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