The Washington times., 1920-01-06
WAN TAKESSTAND;
ESCONFESS|0N
Declares Statement Of Guilt In
Slayings Of Chinese educa-
tors Was Coerced.
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mission house at the time the three
educators were slain. Wan testified
he was there between q and o'clock
when he was seen by kanE Ii, an
other Chinese student, who told the
police OF Wan having been the last
man seen alive In the house.
Explaining his presence In the mis-
sion house at that time. Wan said on
that afternoon Ben Sen WI had called
20 see him at the Harris Hotel and
told him y package had been re-
ceived at the mission from his mother.
Wan said he went for the package
and to see Wu. but finding no one
there no left after about nftesn
minutes.
Cist.as He Was In Hotel.
In his attempt to explode the tes-
timony OF the police ard TO repudiate
the confession. signed by him at the
District Jail, Wan testified that on the
night of the triple siayings he reached
his room at the Harris Hotel at
few minutes after s o'clock. He saw
his brother, Van, there. and after the
latter went to movie show he
(Wan) retired.
ivan came back to the hotel about
IL o'clock" Wan said And he sug-
gested that I get out of bed and take
a walk-to get some fresh air.
agreed II might do me a lot OF good,
SO / dressed and We took a short
walk, returning to the hotel little
| after 12 o'clock"
According TO the police testimony,
| Il was between 8 and probably 1880
o'clock that the three educators had
been shot to death.
stayed Five Days AZ Mission.
Wan said he arrived In Washington
on January 22 and remained at the
| mission house until January 27, de-
claring that he then left because nc
| was sick and 'did not want to trou-
BILE DIR. Wong and the others"
"I told them l was going back to
New York WI went with me to
| the station and I was sck-I told WI,
I was 'awfully sick He said ] better
uot go home, then. i then decided
| to go to the Harris Hotel
After reaching my room / felt
| worse, and II was on this account
that / telegraphed my brother TO
come Immediately to Washington. i
wanted him to nurse me. This was
on January 27, and when he did not
| come the next day / again telegraph
ed him to drop everything and come.
Then he came. / felt little better
the following day and then left for
New York"
| Tells ot His Arrest.
Wan then told OF reading in the
newspapers while in his room In
New York on January 81 that DR..
Wong and the other Chinese educa-
tors had been slain. Detailing his
sorrow at their deaths. Wan testi-
fed he was writing a telegram Of
coincidence to Ii. whom he believed
his friend and who had seen him in
the mission house on the night Of
the slayings, when Detective Ser
geants Kelly and Burlingame and Ii
reached his room.
They all leveled pistols at my
brother and / as they entered the
! room and tostled and searched us for
weapons. l told them ] would will
ingly come down to Washington to
| help clear up the murder of DR..
Wong and his associates. and 1 did"
Police Vulgar To Him.
Wan testified he told the police
that 'if you find the man who took
| check to bank, you find the mur-
derer." but he declared it had been
! vulgarIy insisted that he tell Of his
part in killing the three Chinese.
Despite the testimony of witnesses
for the prosecution that Wan had
never requested that he be allowed
| 10 return to New York. the defendant
| declared that he had frequently urg-
| ed the police to release him on his
| protestations OF innocence. and be-
cause of the condition of his health.
at which, Wan said, the police only
swore the more at him, and persisted
he confess to the triple crime.
When asked by Major Raymond
! Pullman, of the Police Department. II
he were a Christian, Wan testified
that he said he was, but, IL you are
| a Christian, / don't understand why
| you swear so much at me-" The de-
| fendant also told of Burlingame hav-
! ing given him a Bible. He could not
understand it, as "Burlingame swore
at me more than anyone else.
Physicians to Testify.
Wan will be cross-examined
! throughout the afternoon by United
States Attorney John Z. Laskey and
/ his assistant, b. J. Laws.
In his effort to clinch his contention
! that the confession was extorted by
the police from Wan by practice OF
! the third degree, and when the de-
| fendant was in agony, Attorney
James O'Shea, of counsel for the de-
| fense, will introduce expert medical
| testimony tomorrow. An attempt
will be made to prove that Wan was
suffering pain in his abdomen, and
was a physical wreck when he signed
the confession.
O'Shea plans to show that atter
Wan signed the paper. 1t was neces-
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