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Show CHINESE GETS WRIT. Police Olflccrs Must Show Why They Hold Celestial. Special lo Tho Tribune. OODKN, Feb. 17. Wong Yon WcJ. a Chinese, who wax arrested hero a few day ago on Information received from the authorities at Boston, Mass., has so-cured so-cured a writ of habeas corpus. Chief of Polieo "W. T. Norton. Ijolecllvo ,'lames F. Pender and City Jailer Anderson have beon ordered to appear In tho district court on Monday and explain why t he-are he-are holding the celestial In tho city jail. In the petition, It Ik represented that the Chinese ua arrested February 12, without a charge being preferred against him, and that ho 1 bing deprived of his freedom without Just cause. Tho police officers say that ait officer will arrive with a warrant for tho man before be-fore a hearing Is had on the writ. "Wong Wcl was arrested for alleged complicity iu an uinhlozzlomciU, by which ho and hla son, who was treasurer of a Boston restaurant company, aro alleged al-leged to havo obtained nioro than $1000. Following his arroet, the local police received re-ceived instructions to hold him until tho arrival of an officer who would Icavo at once for thin tily. gained entrance to the man's room by returning a bunch of keys which Cooper had left at tho hotel from which he tied after reading a. San Francisco paper. Tho woman turned against Cooper when she learned his real character and aided the polico materially In the prosecution. prose-cution. Cooper was not sentenced until five years after his arrest here. |