The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-06-20
10 Gnas ON Stand in His oW
Defense
GRAPHICALLY PORTRAYs CHINESE FIGHT
nafense Introduced Several Witnesses
Who Testified That Eng Chung
Was the Aggressor.

Wong Hong Hee, on trial for his life
for the murder of Eng Chung, gave a
cranhic portrayal in the superior court
today Of the life and death struggle
ta and Eng Chung engaged in on the
Sunday afternoon when Chung was
killed and Wong was so badly sliced up
with razor that his life was despaired
Of for a time.
Using Charles Tong. the interpreter,
as a subject. Wong wildly illustrated
every alleged move that the dead
rhmaman and he made during their
funt He showed how Eng Chung
grabbed him about the head and began
s9shing him across the head and face
with a razor and when after he mad
been cut three times he whipped out
his revolver and placing it at Chung's
hack fired the first shot. The next shot
was fired while the men were locked
in a death grip. Wong was the next
to the last witness placed on the
stand by the defense and for nearly
an hour ne was subject to severe
cross examination at the hands of At
tOmey Wilson. The prosecution at
tempted to show that the motive for
the killing of Eng Chung was not be-
cause the dead Chinaman had insulted
Wong Hong's wife but from some
other cause. The question of Wong's
WiteS chastity was brought up and
an effort made to show that she was a
| common prostitute. This was indig-
| nautIy denied by Wong and later by
| nis wife who was the last witness
placed on the stand by the defense.
At 245 the defense announced it's
| case closed. The prosecution will Of
fer considerable testimony in rebuttal
ana it will probably be o'clock this
evening before the case will get to the
| jury The trial is attracting consid-
. erable interest, the court room being
crowded this afternoon with a big au-
dience. Many Cinnamon are in at
! tendance.
Swore Eng Chung Started Fight.
Inc defense sprung a surprise this
WoThlng by introducing witnesses who
y ore positively that Eng Chung start
W q Ihe hglt and had succeeded in in
McNhS several bad wounds on Wong
HphS Hee vita a razor before Wong
pulled his revolver and commenced
shooting TO save his own life All Toy.
gardener living near the city ceme-
'sIH SWore tnat he stepped into Eng
NHuisS barber shop on the Sunday
@l'elnoon Of May % to get a shave.
Ing ChuhS was busy shaving Go Gin,
'"e HIte Chinese cook who was the
t7rday
y" roy said he told Eng Chung he
wanted shave but that the latter an
gu lie was busy. All Toy said ne
H. %Louhu Tor a minute wnen Wong
t'"5 nee come in and commenced up
''''s r's Eng Chung for insulting his
wong, he said, told Eng Chung
"e ever came around his home
He would settle with him. All
,,,. S"" thaj Eng Chung then COM
SNFlhlng Wong Hong Hee with
t,, ''@oi IN his hand inflicting several
,.. ' wounds. An Toy said ne rusned
s:. u'e house in company with Go
5a,n .,'i as they passed out of the
af,.n.} 'e} heard a shot. A few seconds
r,.,, warn they heard another shot and
,-.-. 80 Was StIH. All Toy said he then
,,a,. u Inc Quong Tuck Fung COM
store on Alder street.
co,1,I0y 10y had evidently been we'll
pr,,| 1' III the story he was to tell as
abra Jung Attorney Wilson was un-
,ba 10 shake his testimony further
'" TO make him admit that he he
t9a5sa,o 10 a different company than
,-var '' -' oaiDer did and that he seldom
shave 10 Eng Chung's place for a
ta1toI ne admitted that he mad
lana r-,, IN TWO Cinnamon from Port
Tor ~, ~ mad come to Walla Walla
for w purpose of framing a defense
thar ny hung Hee, but he denied
tie -,,.| s'oi| had been hatched up for
f0Se or saving his friend.
Another Handy Witness
Wall W., Cninese cook employed at the
On n, '''ld hospital, followed All Tov
r0aas,.- stand and 'substantiated in
was An Toys statement that he
Tho III Eng Chung's barber shon wban
The bosr?tIe started. Dow said ne left
TENDON la a at l:30 O'Clock in the af-
Quono- =, anu went to his room over the
little bafo, ung company's store. A
Way aofe oe1ofe o'clock he was IN his
With fria me Rose street alley to visit
Chung.s AS he passed by Eng
talking "'Ioer shop ne heard loud
said t5at q second afterward he
from tba An Toy and Go Gin rushed
A secoI, place almost simultaneously.
slot ra foI1l afterward ne heard a pistol
e ~ 1o"ed closely by second one.
to the o,, ~. so into the shop but ran
store to Suons su Tuck Fung company's
admiss,ame came very near making f.+o,
'llSsi0n that he was Sfrns trvinr "a a Ia.a, ha,n