Weekly journal-miner., 1919-03-26
CHIN LANG CHUN SPRINGS ALBI
 IN COURT
(From Sundays Daily.)

fesslon, given to Coroner C. w. Ben
 nett and the beginnings of an af-
 legged alibi were features in the trial
 of Chin Lang Chun yesterday. The
 state rested at 4 o'clock, and counse! for the defense immediately put Chun
 on the stand and drew from him his
 firm and startling denial of Bennett's
 story Bennett had testified during the forenoon.
 Not the credibility of the Chinese,
 but their willingness to speak Eng
 fish was the bone of contention for a while in court yesterday County
 Attorney Neil Clark insisted that
 Chun be examined in the good old Anglo-Saxon, as it had been estab-
 lished by the testimony of Bennett that the Cottonwood laundryman was capable of doing so. Chun had con.
 siderable difficulty with the oath, however, and the court directed that the examination be begun with the aid of Walter Fong as interpreter. One of the first things Chun did Of the stand was to volunteer the in- formation that while he could under stand some English, lie was not very adept at making himself understood and that Bennett had in all probabil- ity, mistaken his utterances in the Jerome jail.
 The country entertained consider able suspicion for the interpreter and at one point, attempted to force ninl to cease a colloquy in Mongolian with the witness and detail to the court and jury, the substance thereof. The prosecution did not believe that it took all that time to ask a conn paratively short and simple question. The court stated, however, that it had been his experience that Chinese wit nesses need some time The ire quently issue long harange on gut terals, which, translated, amounts to an absurdly short comment.
 Impeaching Testimony.
 It had been settled during the re- cess from the day before that the state was to be allowed to bring in evidence purporting to show that as he lay dying, An Fee told the off cers that 1t was Chin Lang Chun. a laundryman, and a resident of Cot tonwood, who had shot him. Frank l Bartlett, deputy sheriff, who had been l used the day before to impeach the | 4-4:...o.,,- or rt,;,, NHr;,cr ,,-,- o,1Icx | on to describe Fees last comments and give his statement Fee, he said, | told him that Chun came to the laundry and demanded S2,50O which | he said was owing to him. Being re, fused the money, he drew a six shooter and shot Fee The state ment contained other matter relative to the wild go-round that followed the shot, in which Chun and Chin Wing went around closing doors ana opening them, and finally making their escape.
 Dr. Charles W. Rogers then took the stand and told substantially the same story. He also heard the dying declaration and saw Chin Wing do the things that Chin Wing, on the stand, denied having done.
 William Allen and C. w. Bennett the stories of the other two.
 Alleged Confession.
 "Ah Fee make me much trouble. Al T-a,b- ,,.o,,,,,, ,,,oI-o ,,,,,-I, .-o,,l,1a Q Chun is said to have told Bennett, when the coroner saw him in tho Jerome jail and drew from him a con- fession of having killed his reputcd rival. Bennett said Cnun spoke to : him in English. t
 The Defense Begins {
 Having brought in tue dying state. { ment and the alleged confession, the state rested. Attorney R. E. Nor i rison instantly placed the defendant on the stand. With the linguistic diff. faculties above described, the case then proceeded to become highly in Leresting
 Chun declared he was ill his own laundry at Cottonwood from 7 to 10 p. III. the night of the murder With him was Ming Yee. After Ming Yec . left to return to Jerome, he closed { Up his laundry and went to the bar. f Der shop to get the wash. On his return about 10 minutes later, he found his back door open. Being in need of an assistant, Ming Yee having ! proved too lame in his arm to be of ( lsc, Chun had determined to go to l Jerome to find and hire a laundrynlan c 50, on his discovery of the open door C le proceeded to pack his valuables in | l suit case. It was while taking the suit case to the Verde to leave in I ,afety, and while climbing a steep ill, that he was intercepted by the officers and placed under arrest. The officers took him first to the laundry, where they made a search, then es .orted him to Clarkdale to where J Nh Fee was supposed to be lying on d lis death bed and then to Jerome fol il in the jail. He was a old when arrested "Ah Fee no die.' O Did you shooot An Fee:' asked h IF. Morrison A lengthy conversation, then, T. No. U .1Arz-. --., .., Tf,.f.I,1 .f..