Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-09
SLEW CH|NAMAN TO
ADVERTISE BOOK
Romantic Career Of Edward L.
oneI Terry Author, Descend
ant Of NAPOLEON.
WAS TIRED OF HUMDRUM LIFE
Enlisted an Private In the I'r,t'sli
Army When Iwcnty-onc TO Escape
Clerical Drudgcry,
sneclnl Corresnondence.

Special Correspondence.
I ONDON, Dee, Facts that
have Just come out here shed
- an interesting light on the ca
recr and character OF Edward
Lionel Ferry the young author who
shot Chiuaman in New Zealand to
advertise his book and call attention to
the danger OF the yellow Peril" Ac-
cordlng to his father, who Is wealthy
real estate agent and mortgage broker
IN London, he is descended from a
French refugee who was an Legitimate
offspring Of the great Napoleon and
changed his name from ThIery to Terry
after settling In England.
LIKE HIS PRoGENIToR
Several persons have commented on
my likeness to Napoleon said the fa-
thor the other day and the inflexible
Will Of the conqueror Of Europe has
been reproduced in my son. | never
knew him to turn aside from any course
on which he had determined. No one
could bend or break his will, He would
! always have his own way
IN GALLONS SHADOW.
And that way has now brought him
within the shadow Of the gallows at the
age of 81. Whether or no there runs
Napoleonlc blood IN his veins, Edward
Lionel Terry Is certainly an extraor-
binary man who. in different times and
under different circumstances might
have done great things. Physically he
is a magnificent specimen OF stalwart
| manhood, standing well over six feet
| and with a handsome face. He was
| convinced that Chinese immigration
constituted the greatest menace to the
| British empire. Failing to arouse pub
lie opinion by his lecturers and writings
against II he deliberately resolved TO
compel attention to 1t by killing u
| Chinaman. He purposely chose as the
victim Of his fanaticism an old and de-
crepit man TO whom. he believed, life
could only be a burden.
DEED SAT LIGHTLY.
The deed sat lightly on his conscience.
II did not even affect his appetite. He
! dined well that night with some friends
aud Il was observed that he was IN
unusually good spirits, Before going to
bed be wrote this letter to the gov
crnor, Lord Plunkett
Sir Having spent several years In
various portions Of the British empire
inauiring into the results arising from
| alien immigration and being convinced
Of the evil consequences arising there
from. have decided TO bring the mat
ter before the public eye in manner
which will compel attention. To make
this decision perfect / have this even
ing put a Ciinaman to death In
liainng street"
STILL CHEERFUL.
Ho was still bright and cheerful next
morning and after eating a hearty
breakfast he called at booksellers
and made inquiries about the sale OF his
book. "The Shadow" He was told that
there had not been much inquiry after
il and only a few copies Of It had been
sold Il think you will find that II Will
sell better tomorrow" he remarked, and
then went 10 a police station and gave
himself up. There was no warrant out
for his arrest for nobody had seen him
shoot the Chnaman. Suspicion would
never have fallen on him and he might
easily have escaped, but that would
have defeated his purpose, He was
quite as willing 10 sacrifice himself to
his convictions as he had been to sacri-
flee an unoffendlug old Chinaman
At HIS OWN EXPENSE,
He published 1.-THE Shadow" at his
own expense and its Illustrations are
by his own hand, II is really a pamph-
let and with the exception Of the intro
duction is I'm verse. The latter exhibits
the Astounding ygor likely TO he found
In the outpourings of an ardent but i'll
balanced nature on a subject long