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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1887)
AN IDYL OK M'.YIi8 (UI.CH. 4M aound, natural When lldwarda mittM him to hav a ml of hia own. returned and learnM what had occurred, lo abort, the apider wm caught ia hia a legion of devila aeetned to joaaeaa him. own wek He tloggM the Chinvman unmercifally The iueton may al I rUtl. h? rv' hia cui. Th, L.. ixdnd he married Keith, when hia only object Keith to atrip alraoat to a at! of nud- u revenge. That ia lt known to itj, kneel down and leg for her life, biroalf. It ia auraiee!, that, having calling her the vilM name hi v ile h gueeeed Hepworlh 'a KCffl love, and aU could frame, l or heixlf, drath would knowing that he would leave no rorana harp Un preferable to audi an exiat- untried to find her. !daarl ha.) ma, enee aa thia, but the muat live to rearue ried ber, Imping the law would protect her child. She oiyod him, repeating him in keeping -rk'n of her m hia what he ordnd her to aajr. and bidej wife. 1 hate thought thl digTeloa her time. Then Wong Keo tu ordered neorary. W will now g lnwk to to tring a bucket of cld, mountain wa- Wong Kee'a narrative, ter, which Kdwarda pnreded to pour Krora Uie day of the outrage, Keith on Keith in a ateady atrem till ahe fell had Iwn ailing, and waa now failing in onnvulMona. faL And from that day, Ut, Kdwarda I am well aware that many who read aeetued to I in constant fear, Ah of thia atory, will doubt that uch au in. hia wife and the Chinaman, He had human monater m Wilm Kdwarda evor tatl the ivrtli of revenge, and if he cxibl in thia civilized and christian read the aigna rightly, hia frr Ume country. For their lenefit, the writer waa not the aafet place for him jut HtaU-a, here, that there are living wjtnea- then, lleaidem, tuppliea wer getting low. ea tM)ay, who will atWt that he nt and he mad that a prrtett for going to only exibd, but ia living to-day, in the the aettlem.nta the morning of the dy neighborhl of a large town in central they encountered Wong Ke. Th . Ohio; Uiat the act of hndih cruelty to inaUntly prjM to Keith to all toward hia child, recorded aUvc, iu her in making her eoap". Hh at firat veritable fact; and that toward hia wife doubt! hit aincerity, but Le fihally eon waa only one of the many acta of inhuman rincM her that he waa in earueet, and brutality of which ah the innocent I v'r "T formal a lan. which lh victim. I will LaU further, that through Chinaman atraightway pr-, t,i put mine of theae name witn-ae, h waa inU eiecution, by (tarting. that night, brought to trial for hia cruelty toward fr Ietil 'a gulch, "h!! camjs" aa be hia child, and at thi trial, hia Ondiah atjted it, to &tl M M-lwan man la." brutality to hi wife, aome .f which waa I )oriug the entir narration, Hepwofth t Lorrible for any printnl ge, waa hvl tol like a ra;gl tUtu la Uotue. diclol to an indignant public. Itat eiery mule rigid and art Ocly LU through the corruption of court an. I ju- eye gUr.J like living for tier. at ry, a eompromia im fffecte, arl he I A 1 of vt4cani f.ie within. Nw tla waa allowed to g fr, though the nrr- worU whiurl thr. tl air I ke bl. diet of the pe waa, that lynching b-U - waa Uf) gl for aoch a wretch Itri- " I'j the mother i f 0 - , nvoon bution, however, in a fcieaaure, folhrl ey devil! We'll aar amfttta L4t him. He marriel, for hia aetiycl wife, a ly, air) yoq'll ia ymt rhrl' Ligb-atppicg creature, U lk tLe cbmb on behirl tay r4ie t. ri.ie reina in br own hanla anl acacly i bke b -1. 1 ay "