Show EVADING THE S GEARY LAW Ingenious Fraud by San Francisco Fran-cisco Speculators ALLEGED CHINESE ACTORS THEY ARE BELIEVED TO BE LABORERS LA-BORERS AND PROSTITUTES Prosecution Discovers Another Flaw In the Story Told By Durrant on the Day Blanche Lament Was Mnrdered Itlcn of using Bromo Seltzer For Partial Asphyxiation is Utterly Absurd nail Dnrritnt Knew I SAN FRANCISCO Sept 12 Collector Col-lector Wise has discovered an ingenious ingeni-ous fraud by which shrewd San Francisco Fran-cisco speculators in the Chinese traffic are seeking to evade the Geary law and introduce about 300 Chinese into the United States under the pretense that they are skilled actors and that they are coming to America to give the visitors at the Atlanta exposition an opportunity to see some of the renowned re-nowned male and female histrionists of Hong Kong A band of more than 200 men and 34 women have already been landed at Victoria and their owners headed by Little Pete and the notorious Leong Nam have ingeniously dodged San Francisco and applied for their admission ad-mission into the United States at Ogdensburg N Y I the applicants should gain temporary tempor-ary entrance on the ground that they are legitimate actors inspectors will be sent to Atlanta to see how they deport themselves and to watch their movements The collector here has evidence however that the men are seeking a permanent home as laborers and that they know nothing about acting There is also evidence in the hands of the collector that the women were purchased in Hong Kong at 600 each and that the proprietors of the scheme have contracts by which they are to be sold at Atlanta for 1800 each I they can be safely landed there the two or three men who engineered the plan here would earn about 40000 The women would of course remain the slaves of their purchasers pur-chasers fpr a long period of years i not for their entire life the design being be-ing to quietly ship them to the lower quarters of Chinatown at the conclusion conclu-sion of the exposition The projectors of the plan got their cue from the federal law relating to the Worlds fair at Chicago Under a special act Chinese and other foreigners foreign-ers were allowed to land for the purpose pur-pose of giving exhibitions and acting A similar provision exists in the case I of the Atlanta exposition |