The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-10-09
CoNFEssEs TO PERJURY. =
Need Of Members OF Her stang For
American Witnesses Against Enc
mics. Made Girl Tell EalSeheod
When Called to Testify.

Processing t1Sr missionary G-
forts had led her to s desire to tell
the truth. Grace Mack. white. once
the wife Of Chinese and now living.
she says. at No. sol West One Hun
dred and Thirty-sixth street. told
Judge Grain in General Sessions yes
terday that twenty months ago she
gave false testimony which helped to
convict two men OF murder.
The men are Eng Hing and Lee
Dock. members Of the Hip Sing Tons.
who were found guilty in February.
1918. Of having killed Lee Kay on Feb,
%. 1912. in front Of No, is Mott street.
Their conviction was affirmed by the
Court Of Appeals and they would have
been executed on Aug. 81 had not
Gov. Glynn been impressed by the
Mack wom2n's t2rdy story. On Aug
% he granted reprieve until Nov. ?
The woman's desire TO tell what she
says is the truth was due to 3 chance
meeting on the night OF the murder
between her and Miss Florence NJ
Todd. missionary. who has spent
many years working among the white
girls of Chinatown
Did Not Know OF Shooting.
Returning. she now says, from an
uptown theatre, the Mack girl met
Miss Todd in her own doorway They
chatted- The missionary casually
spoke Of the murder and asked Grace
if she knew OF IL The girl profsssed
ignorance, saying she had been up
town
In an affidavit submitted yesterday
Miss Todd says the Mack woman met
her 3 few days afterward and re-
marked, Well. I'm going TO Be q
witness against the ehinks- I'm go
ing 10 the District-Attorney.
How can you. when you were in
the theatre and did not see the kill
inggr Miss Todd replied
4 saw it all right was the reply.
The missionary was not convinced.
but felt her suspicious would be OF no
value in court. So she said nothing
when Grace Mack appeared at the
first trial and identified the prisoners
as the men she had seen do the shoot
ing
The first trial resulted in 8 dis
agreement. On the second trial the
girl gave similar testimony. Several
times after that the missionary talked
with her and became more and more
convinced that the testimony had been
false
Every time she saw Grace after
that she urged on the latter the wrong
OF giving false testimony that would
send two men to death She pointed
out that it was not too late TO right
the wrong It was not until after the
Court OF Appeals had affirmed the
conviction that the woman admitted
that she had periured herself.
Got Two Lawyers Interested.
Miss Todd went to Frank Moss and
he and Terence J. MclLanus took the
story to the Governor. -Four days be
fore the execution Gov Glynn gave the
hearing which resulted in the reprieve.
Yesterday the same lawyers applied
to Judge Grain for new trial Grace
Mack testified that at the time Of the
first trial she was living with Frank
Tee. also witness for the prusecU-
ton
She said that shortly before the trial
she was taken TO the secret council
room Of the On Leong Tong and met
Gin Gum. two other members of the
On Leong Tong and FlosSie Wong. z
girl who at the trial eorrohoratei her
story They told her. she swore, that
they had TO have American witnesses
against the two Hip Sing men
Asked why she had consented TO
the plan she said fear had prompted
her.
And she added, the only reason
other women from Chinatown don't
support the story that l am telling
now is that they are afraid Of their
lives