Show S s CHINESE JUSTICE p i M I = I < > Quong Dang Lung and Ling Before the Interesting Scrap 1 About 9 oclock Sunday evening I i OfficerJames rM Brown and Robert i Chawbersj rraided the house kept by a 4 Quong Dang Lnng on Fifth Street and passing Lung who was stationed at the door passedto the interior of the den and surprisedsome twenty or thirty of the Celestials at most in the act tf gamb ingtM yipi1thex officers went to pals the sentry he gave tae alarm and the police were unable to get much of the paraphernalia They succeeded h wever in captnring a number of brass chips some strips of red tard buard and sonic black and white buttons Quong and Lang were arrested on the dfartreVfkeepinK a tainbhnghonse J aVd1 t appeared in the Police Court at2ocJd sterday afternoon At the npMning hour tbp court room prsented qutp an inter tirig sfieVacle The two prisoners occupied anxious sets in front of the jL1dgwbile twelve or fifteen other Celestials were dispersed about the room QtIong Dang Lung the first prisoner sat with his spectacle j nose cocked in the air and with an air of supreme indifference on his cpnn ton ante i Ling looked pae and dejfceU while their fellows each I I wore fFerent grades of pickerrt visapes and crooked eves which might signify something or nothing Mr L R Roger appeared 4n behalf of the city and Mr A H Nelson represented I Chinamen I Whtn everything was in readiness the proeoution introduced the testimony tes-timony Of Officers Brown and Chambers Cham-bers which was simply to the effect that they had raided tne house and cp tured the articles above mentioned Marshal Ballantyne was a < kd what he knew about the methods of Chinese gambling but was not an expert in the line He knew however that the apparatus ap-paratus on exhibition Was a part of that used in the games of Chinese At this juncture the defense asked for the discharge of the prisoners on the ground that no case had been made out against them The court th ught they should be put on their defense howtVer and Charlie Yung cook for Major Silva was sworn as interpreter inter-preter The two defendants and anothfr Chinaman were sworn and testified for the defense They were not gambling only playing for pastime By some cross question ilr Rogers got some slight admissions out of the witnesses and taking courage cour-age turned round to an officer and told hm to go down on Fifth Street and tubpcena a Chinaman for him It donc make any difference what Chinaman just so you get one said he Accordingly Accord-ingly Chil amah was brought in and the others were anxious to get to communicate com-municate with him before he went on the witness stand The officers pre ented this however until he was brought into the courtroom when from S different parts of the place the Celestials began to talk They were peremptorily shut up and instructed by the court through the interpreter that if thev did not keep still they would be put into jail for co tempt The new witness was sworn through the interpreter and during the process the city attorney thought he discovered an attempt lo explain the nature of the case to the witness Some diffic ltv was experituced in keeping the celt tials quiet and Mr Rogers becam slightly excited He had discovered by this time that the new witness could understand English and picking up the string of brass chips which was on the table he walked hurriedly around the table and confronting the witness with them asked What they were The witness replied that they was allie same cents m China A lank dark visaged crumple skhintd heathen that was sitting near the witness wit-ness began to twist his face into all sorts of uncouth shapes and stretch out his arm to warn the witness and nnally got tip and walked past him to the door In passing the witness he muttered some thong in Chinese and the prosecuting officer becoming riled and more excited a j tbeyariishing Chinaman passed by gave him a kick on another part of his anatomy which somewhat hastened his exit The court interposed and the attorney at-torney apologised The witness then explained that the chips were not currency cur-rency in this country and that they were used only in China The attorneys summed up their case exchanging some very original comparisons parisons in their arguments and Line was discharged Quong Dang being found guilty Sentence will be passed this morning |