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Show CHINESE FEARS FOR HIS LIFE Ong Chou Que on Trial Says Countrymen Will Kill Him I Arguments In the '.use of Ong Chou Que. Chinese charged with embezzlement, embezzle-ment, are belnr heard In the district court this afternoi n and the case Willi be In i lie hands or the Jury late today l-Ong is alleged to have embezzled tho ! sum of $703 from a society of which he was an officer. ing was called to the witness stand 1 this morning by Charles I'arr. his at-; torney, end through an interpreter, Idepled that ho had received any mon-I mon-I . or taken any from the society. He said that he held money belonging to a society which wus formed previous to the one he is charged with having 1 embezzled from but declared that ac-counts ac-counts were carefully kept and there wore no Irregularities. Ho declared that Chinese of ogden are embittered against him and therefore brought the charge of embezzlement. (.ing told Mr. Parr, his attorney, that he Is In fear of his Ogden countrymen apd believes If he Is acquitted they will attempt to take hts life. i'arr asked that all Chinamen be excluded frotn the courtroom tills morning so , they could not intimidate tho witness. |