Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1925-10-09

When the day Of the trial came Al
/ Wong was in the clothes Of ms other,
/ the PAINTED face Of All Wong wab Ike
the face Of sam Chin and the deeep-
ton was not discovered All Wong
was pleased with his bargain when the
money was paid and securely hidden,
| for six months is not long in mans
/ life and he was told that in the house
| Of correction & good bed and plenty
I Of food are provided He had not
been told that Sam Chin's sentence
| demanded hard labor, and for the first
time IL his life, TO his disgust, All
/ Wong had 10 work From this work
came thought angry thought at first,
| but calm and satisfying afterward,
| because before the six months were
up he had invented a new profession.
When released, be asked his cousins
10 write to New York, San Francisco,
Denver. and other cities. 10 say TO the
leading Cinnamon that All Wong would
- q Jail in the place Of other men for
not less than a thousand dollars and
expenses His cousins laughed again
and said that All Wong had learned
10 WORK, but he said nothing about his
secret Invention
In two months he went TO Proyi-
dence, where zee Get was arrested
with smUgzled opium In his jacket. The
sentence vas a year at hard labor
but when Il was interpreted 10 All
Wong be only smiled broadly He
I'D not smile at the jail, but when the
time came fOr him 10 go to work, he
was found all doubled up with some
strange disability, and both wrists and
one shoulder were out Of joint. The
doctor reduced the dislOcariens and
sent the prisoner TO the hospital T.
recuperale. The food was better in
the hospital. the bed was better, and
All Wong recoTered-as slowly az h.
could When at last he was sent back
| 10 work the strange sickness attacked
| him again and the Joints Of his arms
/ were again dislOcated. He never left
the hospital after that, and, as he had
| become a burden upon the authorities
| he was released in nine months. earn
| ing his thousand dollars more easily
even than he had expected. This time
wien he returned to his cousins he
| found that he was wanted in Philadel-
phia and San Francisco at the same
time, and he kept both men waiting
until the price was bid up to three
thousand dollars. At the beginning of
his professional career he was so thin
that he could only take the place Of
laundrymen and labOrers in the penl-
tentiaries, but with arms out Of Joint
| he lived on the latest Of hospital fare,
and as he gained weight he took the
sentences Of rich merchants who we're
able to pay more. He permitted him
self to be tried for any crime only
| drawing the line at murder cases, be-
| cause, as he said, he was now a rich
man and could not afford to leave his
money.
Last fall he decided that he was rich
enough to retire. He had served In
twenty jails and as he could not do his
contortion speciality In any one OF
them a second time, his field Of useful
ness had become restricted to cities
where there were but a few, and those
generally law-ablding, Cinnamon.
Therefore he decided to return to the
land Of his fathers to enjoy the fruits
Of his laziness, and was planning to
reach there in time for the celebra-
tlon Of the Chinese New Year. At the
last moment, however, he was sum
mOned to New York by letter from
man who was about to be deported
for being Illegally In the country and
whose rich friends were willing to pay
literally for substitute to be sent
back to China in his place. The new
arrival, then out under heavy bail, was
a comparatively thin man, but All
Wong agreed to take his place for two
thousand dollars and reduce his weight
TIL he fitted the others clothes So All
Wong enjoyed the New Years festival
on starvation diet of rice and water
When, with his snug fortune, he EN-.
barked on the Picking, his passage paid
10y the government Of the United
States, he was awaited by patient
little almond-eyed bride, secured
through the good Offices OF his re
pentant family.