The sun., 1903-10-06
THE WOMEN and the CHINESE.
MORE WEEPING OVER THE, MON
GOBIAN PRISONERS.
estes Avenue Police Court Again Crowded
~ with Mission ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
, Furiong Denounces Them--Declares
He Has Proof Of Shocking Grimes.


MaRistrste Furlong, in the Gates avenue
police court in Brooklyn, denounced yes
to-day the women teachers Of the Chinese
missions who are trying to secure the re-
lease Of the six Cinnamon arrested last
week for crimes against young girls. Inc
MAGISTRATE did not mince his words. He
declared that IL he had the power to DO It
he would drive every Chinaman out OF
Brooklyn.
Before entering the court building, a.
early as 8 o'clock, the Magistrate saw
crowd Of several hundred men and women
In the street. When he got inside the court
room and learned that the majority OF the
yo,mg women there had come to befriend
tho Cinnamon he expressed himself as dis
gusted with Chinese missionaries.
III a Laundry opposite the court house
werv two young women teachers from the
Myrtle Avenue Chinese Mission and crowd
Of Cinnamon who were busy talking with
them and with Miss Pope, the superintendent
OF the mission. They discussed the case OF
Hu Tom, and declared that they would all
stick to him because he was q member OF
tho Chinese Sunday school attached to tho
Tompkins Avenue Methodist Church.
According to Policeman McGroover. who
broke into the laundry at the time Of Hu
Toms arrest, there Is no doubt OF Hu Toms
guilt. One Of the young women Sunday
school teachers asked the police for all OF
the details Of the crime.
The majority Of the women who man.
aged TO get into the court room yesterday
believed evidently that they would hear some
sensational testimony. for they elbowed the
court officers and scrambled for front seats
Among them were the women who last
Thursday night visited the Gates avenue
polics station. bringing fruits. flowers end
ciearettes to the almond-eyed prisoners
None OF them dared to bring gifts yesterday
for they had been informed that Magis-
trate Furlong would make public the name
and address Of any woman who attempted
to visit the Cinnamon in the pen.
The case Of Kate Karitz was called first
She is the young married woman who,
according to Capt. Buchanan, introduced
girls to the laundrymen In various parts
Of, Brooklyn. She is charged with aiding
and abetting' in case In which seventeen
wear old Lizzie Kane is to be called as q
witness. Lawyer Hyland secured an sd-
journment of her examination until Friday
next.
Tho cases Of the laundrymen were then
called. Edwin B. Wood stepped to the
rail and said:
.Your Honor, I represent the Chinese
Sunday. School Union
Il won't allow you, sir. to appear for
that union or any other organization.
interrupted Magistrate Furlong
Wood explained that he was lawyer,
with an Office at 220 Broadway, and he was
also the superintendent Of one Of the Chi
nese Sunday school missions In Brooklyn
and treasurer OF the Chinese Sunday school
Union.
.N you have received retainer from
any of these prisoners or have been en-.
said the Magistrate, Il will let you appear,
not otherwise
Wood, who is superintendent OF the
Chinese mission at 961 Gates avenue. which
is supported by the James Methodist Epis-
copai Church, explained that he had been
retained TO defend HUI Tom. Lawyer
David Hirschfeld said he also had been
Shuh.,
After q consultation the lawyers settled
Hu H fom, and then Lawyer Hirsohfed
asked that all of the Chinamen's cases be
postponed until Oct: 20.
-No, sir. replied the Magistrate. a
this kind
then trotted out, and the folks holding
orchestra seats got good chance to see
him. Then came Charlie Shuh. another
Sunday school pupil.
Many Of the women along the front row
q benches wept. They believed that IL the
the girls ought to be punished.
This see1na to be the sentiment among
the teachers OF the Tompkins Avenue
Methodist Church Mission, the Ch inese
mission attached to the James Methodist
Episcopal Church and the Chineee mission
on Monroe street conducted by the Society
came from the mission attached to the
Washington Avenue Baptist Church, which
"a one OF the largest in Brooklyn.
After the Cinnamon had been lined up
before the bar the lawyers made an effort
10 have their bail reduced, stating that
none OF the prisoners would be able to
furnish either 5000 or $4,000 in bonds,
the amount required in each case.
Magistrate Furlong said he would enter
tain D motion for the reduction OF bail
later. In the meantime he would adjourn
MI Of the cases, including those Of the Bren-
nan girl and Of Lizzie Kane, until Friday.
When the Cinnamon were being led from
the court room to the prison van, several
of the young women missionaries stood
In tho street and waved their handkerchefs
TO the prisoners. Then number Of elderly
women showered words Of abuse on the
Sunday school teachers. while men in the
crowd hissed them.
"Them yaller divis ought ter be lynched,
yelled a woman near the curb, but she
was quickly hustled out Of the way by the
police. The reserves from two precincts
were In and about the court room and they
managed to keep the crowd quiet until
tho Cinnamon were driven back to Ray
mond Street Jail.
Lawyer Wood said he hoped to get the
GhinAn1en released in few days, because
k believes them innocent
sFor three years past, he said, Il have
heard Of young girls visiting laundries in
Brooklyn. Girls of IL and 10 would look
In through the open door Of a laundry and
their companions would push them inside,
at the same time shouting, John, this girl
will give you a kiss il you give her brace
putting temptation in the way Of the
II don't think there was any organized
gang OF girls who regularly visited the
hundries. One Of my Chinese pupils told
Inorof girl who came to his laundry de-
manding half dollar. The girl told him
according to the story, that she wouldn I
70 away without quarter, adding, IN
make trouble for you The ChiDaman
fetched his landlord and the girl disap-
pearsd.
Another girl on Reid avenue asked a
Chinaman to give her some nuts, and when
le refused she ran home and told her father
thst tho man had insulted her. Miss Dill,