The San Francisco call., 1910-07-17
court LlBERATES
HAND OF POLICE
Restraining Orders Protecting
Five Chinese Gambling
Houses Dissolved
District Attorney Directed to In
vestigate Alleged Perjury
by Orientals

Inree more ol the temporary re-
straining orders holding the hands of
the police from entering Chinatown
gambling houses were lifted yesterday,
Judge Conley dissolving orders signed
by Presiding Judge Van Nostrand for
bidding interference with the follow
ing places: Oriental club Ross alley;
Lai Lung society, Is and 20 Ross alley;
Fong Chung benevolent society, .133
Waverly place.
In addition, Attorney c. K. Harper,
representing the Hob Lee Yuen club, at
81 Ross alley, and the Arrow club, a
gambling place for white men at 10
Turk street, voluntarily agreed to the
dissolution of the restraining orders.
The police may now enter these five
clubs al any time they see fit.
Judge Conley sprang surprise in the
ranks of the gamblers by announcing
his belief that perjury had been COM
mitted by the Chinese who swore to
the complaints and affidavits upon
which the restraining orders had been
issued.
PERJURY, SAYS JUDGE
n wish to call the attention of the
district attorney of San Francisco to
the fact that perjury has been COM
mitted in some of these matters" the
straining order as to the Lai Lung
society. THE complaint and affidavit
accuse the police of raiding the places
and terrorizing persons there, whereas,
according to the testimony of Sergeant
Duncan Matheson, at the time the COM
plant was filed the premises were not
yet occupied"
I'VE know there has been perjury,
but the trouble is we can not identify
= rfi iac w ~ ma 6a a
said Assistant District Attorney Cot
ton. I'VE would like to have them
ordered into custody.
Il can not make such an order, as
they are not in the courtroom Judge
Conley remarked.
| Cotton then asked J. E. Alexander,
attorney for the society, to bring the
men into court.
Il have absolutely no objection to
bringing them here-if I can get them, .
replied Alexander Personally L am
not acquainted with them. 1 have been
compelled to act through an inter-
prefer"
In the case of the Fong Chung benev-
olent society, also represented by Alex
ander. the judge again directed the at
tention of the district attorney to the
affidavits.
The case of the Oriental club was the
first one called. Attorney Alexander
asked for continuance and said that
the club management had lived up to
the agreement to admit the police twice
daily.
"Oh no, they haven't" interjected
Sergeant of Police Matheson. Il went
there at o'clock last night and was
turned down. got in the first door.
but they refused to open the second,
and 1 was imprisoned between the two.
If | had had an AK l would have
chopped my way in.
Matheson repeated this statement as
sworn testimony, and the restraining
order was Immediately dissolved by
Judge Conley. who refused to near any
further statements.
Alexander also began by asking a
continuance when the case of the Lai
Lung society was called.
What is the purpose of this appli-
cation?" asked the Judge, merely to
gain delay? Let the hearing proceed"
Matheson, in an affidavit, said that
when the restraining order was served
on him the gambling house had not
opened. Alexander admitted that he
obtained the temporary restraining or
der "at or about the time the club
moved from other premises. The order
was dissolved without further parley.
NO RAID MADE
Matheson testified that the police
never had been in the Fong Chung
benevolent society, and in dissolving
this restraining order Judge Conley
said he did so because it had not been
shown that there was any infraction
of the law on the part of the police.
The Wong You, 143 Waverly place,
for which Carroll Cook and Jacob S.
Meyer are attorneys, may, the Judge
directed, be entered by the police twice
every "a hours pending hearing Mon
day at 2 o'clock. Cook protested
against this order.
Il would like to see policemen break
into my front door, which is three feet
thick" he said. why don't they try
and force their way into the Union
League club, where there are steel
doors?'
The argument had no weight with
Judge Conley, however. He also per-
mitted two visits a day ITO the Won
See, 156 Waverly place, represented
by Attorney Leon Samuels, the hearing
on which will also come UP Monday
afternoon.
Sergeant Matheson and the China
town squad raided s Ross alley yester-
day afternoon and arrested SO Chinese
for visiting gambling place.