The San Francisco call., 1905-08-17

ously burst in upon by a squad of police
and treated with the indlgnity that was
fairly showered upon these believers in
the doctrines promulgated by Confucius?
Would not the whole community rise in
religious censure? But these defendants
do not expect. nor would they approve, a
public uprising in their behalf. They are
content TO smother their grievance,
knowing that they will receive Justice
in this court Fortified by their con-
sciousness of innocence, they can afford
to let the law take its course and bring
rebuke upon the heads or those who
would faIn convict them.
Much more of the same stuff did the
Judge hear as he patiently permitted the
case to drone itself to finish. Il don't
believe word that any of these defend
ants has sworn" he informed their ad-
vocate, but don't let that ract deter you
from getting in all the testimony you
can"
The prosecuting testimony went to
show that the appearance of lights in
the windows Of No. / Ross alley, a for
mer gaming house, attracted the atten-
ton of the police, and suspecting that
''fan-tan'' had been surreptitiously re-
sumed they raided the place, finding the
twenty-six defendants therein congre-
gated, but no material evidence that they
had recently been flirting with the God
dess of Chance, although such evidence
might have been removed through the
wooden chute that had been kept there
for that very purpose in the old days
when gambling iourished.
For the defense was set up the plea
that the purpose Of the congregation was
To devise ways and means by which suf-
fcient money might be collected to de-
fray the expense attendant upon a
proper observance of the annual Gus
tom of honoring the memory of those
Chinese who had departed this sphere
during the preceding twelvemonth and
left no living relatives in this country
to preserve their posthumous fame The
meeting was called by All Gun, of un-
blemished reputation for probity, and he
had selected No. l Ross alley as the place
OF gathering because it was unoccupied
and obtainable free of cost.
All Gun told the court that in former
years the calling of such meetings was
unnecessary, because of the ease with
which the needed money could be col
lected by visiting the business houses OF
Chinatown, especially the gaming houses,
the proprietors of which were most lib
eral in donating to all sorts of religious
movements Since the suppression of
gambling, however, it has been impos-
s.ble to raise sufficient funds to hold any
of the numerous annual festivals on Its
wonted scale Of grandeur. On the 18th
of September, for instance, falls the great
festival Of greeting to the new moon, yet
the prospect is that in every essential to
appropriateness it will fai, miseraply
short of former celebrations, because the
boss gamblers lack both inclination and
ability to put up the necessary money.
Viewed from a Confucian stand
point" said his Honor, the suppression
Of gaming in Chinatown is deplorable,
but when looked at in the light OF Cau-
casian civilization, which includes com.
munal morality, it is not grief-pro-
voking. And ii is not because believe
that these defendants were assembled
for any benevolent purpose. but be-
cause the prosecuting evidence Is in
adequate to warrant their conviction.
that dismiss the case"
After he had scared into state OF
mysteries the 1andlady OF the Florence
House, at Ellis and Powell streets,
John Yokahari tried TO 1iujitsu Patrol
man Harry Hook, but the big officer
thwarted his endeavor by applying a
half-nelson, obtaining a strangle-h hold
and dusting the ceiling and both walls
of the hallway with his writhing car
cass.
She-owe-me-six- ix-dolP-and-off'
-me-fo' ff-only," pleaded the de-
fendant in measured Anglo apanese.
And your refusal to accept the four
fifty costs you not only that sum, but
ten more which this court Will collect
! IL you have it," said Judge Fritz.
John Yokahari had the ten and paid
it as suggested.
Emil Wagner, who stole unfinished
silverware from his employers, Shreve
& Co., pleaded guilty Of petty larceny
and informed Judge Conlan that he
would like to be sentenced immediate
l ly as uncertainty as to his fate was
even more enervating than incarcera-
ton. The Judge, however, declined TO
depart from his rule of allowing at
/ least twenty-four hours from the time
of conviction to elapse ere he passes
sentence, so Mr.. Wagner's neurasthenia
will not be ameliorated until to-day.
Wong You testified that as he wa
peacably promenading the Asiatic quar-
ter he was showed from a sidewalk
and maliciously thumped on the fore
head by Antoine Justi.
Have you summoned any eye-wit-
nesses of the alleged ASSAULT" Judge
Fritz asked Wong Yu-
'Wha' fo' me bling pleople to