The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17
WILL MAKE FIGHT
FOR CHINAMAN
BEFORE SAME OFFICIALS
WHO FORCED GREENE AND GAY
NOR TO RETURN TO GEORGIA.

Commissioner Hewlett and Chinese
Inspector StrettOn Have GONE to
New York for the Badly Wanted
Arthur Hu-Case VIII BE Heard
Tuesday Before Commissioners
ShieIds-Arthur is Fighting Hard
TO Keep From Coming Here
Where He is Wanted for Perjury.
United States Commissioner William
r. Hewlett, in company with United
States Chinese Inspector Stretton, left
last night over the Southern for New
York, to attend the extradition hear
ing in the case of Arthur HUI, erstwhile
witness in Chinese exclusion case.
The case is one which has attracted
widespread attention. the government
authorities having displayed great zeal
in prosecuting those involved for de-
portation and perjury. The case is
also the most involved one with which
the authorities have had to deal since
the Chinese exclusion act, the mar
shals, United States attorneys and
judges in three states having taken
part in the matter.
The hearing on the extradition pro-
ceedings will be held on Tuesday in
New York city. before United States
Commissioner Shields. The prosecu-
ton will be represented by United
States Attorney Burnett. 1t is inter
esting to note that these are the same
officials before whom the eXtradition
proceedings of Greene and Gaynor were
held when they were fighting against
being returned to Georgia.
United States Attorney Leaken is as
ISOLATED with Mr.. Burnett in the pros
ecution of the cases, but will not at
tend the hearing in New York. 1t is
expected that HUI will be brought back
to Savannah for trial, in which event
Mr.. Leaken will look after the govern
ment's interests here.
Hu is Out on Bond.
HUI is now under $1,000 bail. The
case is an outgrowth of the first Chi
nese case ever brought in Georgia I'M
der the exclusion act and there is a
great deal of interest connected with
it.
The certificates which the Chinese
are obliged to have always with them,
bear a photograph of the person to
whom it was issued. 1t is remarkable
to note how much alike the Chinese
look, even to the trained eye of the in
spector. Another thing which, say
the authorities, has been disclosed, is
that the class of Cinnamon who live
in the United States is as a rule, COM
posed of more prevaricatorS than any
other race, class or sect.
Some criticism has been excited be-
cause of the governments prosecution
of the cases, many believing it is I'M
just and unduly VIGOROUS. When ask
ed about this matter, Mr. Leaken said
the government had gone, and would
continue to go, to any expense to pre-
serve the integrity of its courts and
| protect justice from the pollution of
perjury, stating that the same law
which applies to the Chinese is equal
| ly applicable, so far as perjury is con-
| cerned, to others.
The Chinese rebus was presented to
| the authorities first in March, when
the United States marshal at Savan-
| nah received a telegram from the au-
thorities at Jacksonville, asking him
| to arrest three Cinnamon on the Sea-
board train that day. Ex-Deputy Mar
| shall Pearce went to the train and ar
| rested the only three Cinnamon that
were on the train.
Arrests Caused CONSERVATION.
Then there was CONSERVATION among
| the Chinese. 1t stated that they had
| many friends in Savannah; or else
| race sympathy caused them to congre-
| gate and plot. Some of them could
change stories faster than they could
| talk. They all appeared ignorant, but
this proved to be foxiness.
The upshot of it was they produced
| other certificates; the Savannah China
men swore that they had known their
unfortunate friends from a time when
| as Blackstone says, the memory OF
man runneth not to the contrary. They
swore they were the identical Chings
mentioned in the certificate, and in
| fact, swore anything and everything
except the truth, according to the fed
| eral authorities. But there was no go
ing behind the returns, and the China
men We're released.
At this trial Long Chang produced
| a certificate, No. $685. certifying that
| Wong Fong Ho was lawfully in this
country; and Long Chang swore on
| that trial that he was Wong F'ong IIo
| To corroborate his story he produced
number of Cinnamon, among whom
was Arthur HUI, who swore than LONG
| Chang was Wong F'ong Ho. The pho
| tographs on all these certificates were
so similar that it was impossible to
| distinguish them.
Much Used Certificate 2SOs.
In May, Inspector Eager found Ions
| Chang at Bernandina, without any
legal certificate, but insisting that his
name was Long Chang, and not Wong
| Fong Ho, and accounted for the alb
| sence of certificate 2SOS by saying his
| brother, the real Wong Fang Ho, had
| It. He confided to the inspector, 1t is
| alleged, that he had borrowed 1T at the