The San Francisco call., 1909-07-29

Miss Cameron bought some bananas
and the shrewd little child, who wit
messed the purchase, consented to eat
the fruit.
Miss Cameron said that she had
known for some months that there was
a white child living in Chinatown, but
she had seen the child in the street and
rather inclined to the belief then that
the little girl was but half white. Miss
Cameron then told of the receipt of
anonymous letters and finally of direct
Information that the child was at the
address given.
DECLARE CHILD is WHITE
Il went there today" she said. "and
got the child. 1 think little Nah Ho
is white child. Her complexion, eyes,
the color of her hair, and all, assure
me on that point. l have seen many
half whites, but never sone that looked
as she does L would say that the child
is an Italian Jew.
'The foster mother had document
from home finding society with head
quarters in the old Academy of Sci
ences building. The paper was signed
by George Montgomery of Beulah and a
Mrs. Bradbury. 1t purported that the
society had investigated and found to
the satisfaction of the officers that a
certain Lin Juy was a fit person to
have the custody of the child. How
ever, the name Lin Juy was written
over another name, which had been
erased, but which was, l believe, a
Chinese name. The paper was dated
1904"
QUESTIONED BY INTERPRETER
When questioned through an inter-
prefer about her parents the child al
first answered that she had forgotten.
When definite questions were put, her
memory improved Il have always had
a Chinese papa and mamma" she said
Before the fire we lived in a basement
with my papa and mamma and uncles
and aunts and cousins. l have lived in
Dixon, Sacramento, Oakland and here.
l was never beaten nor abused"
One of the stories told to Miss Cam
eron was that the child had been
Shockingly mistreated; that she was
whipped, triced up by the thumbs and
made to work at late hours of the
night. The child denied all this Ill
treatment and showed no signs of pun
ishment Her manner, too, was bright
and intrepid. There was no timidity
which distinguishes children who are
brutally treated.
FOSTER MOTHER HEARTBROkEN
Tun See, wife of Nah Juy Lin,
seemed heartbroken last evening when
seen at the basement domicile. With
her was a canny Chinese woman who
acted as interpreter. This was Tun
Sees story:
Il am just the second mamma of Nah
Ho. My husband is now working on
an island near Stockton; he is a farmer
Nah Hos real mother was an American
lady who lived in New York. There
she married a Chinese and this child
was born. But the mother was sick
when the child came and she died The
husband, Nah Hos father, did not like
the baby because it had white blood.
He wanted to get rid of it. So he
gave it TO me- L was always good TO
it, and the woman bowed her head on
the dark sleeve of her blouse and wept
bitterly.
When Policeman Luke Livingstone
secured the child there was a white
man employed in Chinese undertak-
ing parlors who took an acute interest
in the case, friend of the family.
he said.
No better judgment on the type of
blood that flowed in the child could
be had, it would seem, than from a
Chinese woman. And Miss Cameron's
interpreter, after talking with Nah Ho.
said: Why, any one should see that
she is not Chinese and has not a
strain of Chinese blood in her. She is
white girl''