The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1901, Page 1

o ] R \ . ar na. :dustry that is C e table fish in \ w e Deputy Fish inually and zeal- junks and drying to them is what a revenue collector is to & rifie-armed moon- \''i \\\‘\I\ 7 \ \} /A show t Fish Com- from for back as he , so, put- rapped at =ald, in re- I pushed It was xclama- number n. but from tt I had run { I told them I shower was over. me reason they seemed to get cited and began a wild jabber. e I did not dream they would at- , 50 1 was an easy mark when m struck®me on the head with knocked me down a dozen of them jumped on me, h I struggled hard to get away d me tied hard and fast with This did not seem to satisfy some m, for after a lot of jabbering two of them went outside and returned with a net, and into it they rolled me. Th they picked me up ahd carried me 10 & near-by building and left me among a lot of nets, oars, boxes and dried fish. “Of course I began to wriggle and twist to get out of my bonds. After what I thought was an eternity, but I guess it was not more than two hours, I managed to get one hand free. The rest was easy work, and in a jifty I pried open the pad- locked door with one of the oars. No one was in sight, so I.ran straight for the had left my bicycle, and 1t round that beyond the shed whers n’t take me long to ped; polnt of the bay. and get clutch of those pig-tailed flends Maybright is not the first man who has had such experience with these fishermen. What crimes and dark deeds lie hidden in that arm of the bay above which the unpainted fishing village stands out hard, black, secretive, no officer may guess, The place is within easy and conyvenient ferry distance of the highbinder tongs in San Franciseco, and when things get too hot there the pursued hatchetmen ship over the bay and disappear in the direction of the settlement. There are hints of ‘caves on that precipitous hillside and of secret passageways leading from dirty looking cribs to subterranean chambers, but if they are there no prying ofiicer of the law has unearthed them. Still, it took the detectives a long while to discover the in- genius trapdoor in the Slng Suey shop on Dupont street, but they riddled that mys- tery at last and routed out a skulking nest of notorious law breakers. , Ng Ah Poy, the king of highbinders, passed several seasons at this settlement, and he might have been living there In hiding yet if his active temperament hadn’t induced him to go on a hatchet tour of the upper San Joaquin counties, where his pistol practice ran him into the hands of the police, Bodles with the marks of foul play have been washed up on the shores of the bay there, but though the officers might be morally certain where the culprit lived there would be nothing but the flimsiest evidence to fasten it on a member of the “no sabe’ colony. Chinese girls have been kidnaped in Chinatown. by notorfous hatchetmen and have been tralled In the direction of the fishing village, but any criminal trails that lead in that direction invariably disappear before they reach THE PURSUED HATCHETMEN SLIP OVER that place—disappear mysteriously. About three months ago, shortly after dusk one evening, the crew of a schooner coming out of Carquines Straits heard the cries of & man calling for help. They beat about some time and finally located him on a small rodk just off the bay shore and within hailing distance of &' Chinese fishing village, The man was bound by stout ropes ta a post and his captors had made as good a job of it as any band of Apaches- that ever roped up a victim for the fagots. The man was in a state of exhaustion when rescued. His story was simple enough, yet it sounds like a chapter out of a romance of theslast century. He did not know the reputation of the villagers and innocently enough went up to one of the houses for a drink.' He got his drink and at the same time a thump on-ihe head. When he came to conscious— nsss ne was bound and gagged and rolled into a.dirty room in an émpty house. At nightfall four yellow-faced, stolld scamps tossed Lim into a boat, rowed lo the rock and, after removing the gag, pin- ioned him to a post. That's all he ever knew about the as- sault and that's all the officers ever learned. Three days’ examination of the yellow talled stofcs falled to elcit any- thing else but ‘no sabe,” and not one of them could be positively identified as an assailant, What crimes le behind the finding of the six bodles just above the village by Coroner Eden recently may never be known. A hound nosing over the ground just shead of an officer with an Inquiring turn of mind, ran upon the mystery and the disinterment of the bodles in various stages of decomposition followed. As usual, the officers ran agalust “no sabe” THE MAN WAS BOUND BY STQUT ROPES =A . S turns of the investigation. There of warring tongs, Chiness feuds, fi among malevolent factions and rep isals madé by but the only gible e the six bodies unearthed from the shal- low graves on the serub-covered hillside. No amount of questioning will develop who buried th r, according to »n, when a everybody ey toss a the grave- v will come as th. Later on sed with masks he coin. No- and nobody to It, for, ac- of the place, between them whom it is at an are stories and the my death to k Last week a no & Chinese w Ahe direction o he be found there, him what other m unearthed? ARSI RS WATEH WORTR & FORTUNE. A manufact Geneva, W hbinder killed ¥ and fled in ss village. Will 1 in the search for terious crime will be ng Switzerland, havé for sixty years been making a alty of complicated time- pleces, and a watch recently placed on view at the Paris is regarded v -tHem t achievement lems which able, says d have suc- ceeded In retaining the size of the watch within the .conve fimit of. a pocket timeplece—namels Mgnes, corre- sponding to the Am eighteen size. But two of these wa s have ever been constructed. One was purchased direct from the workshop of the firm and added 10 the magu.lcent watch collection of A. Pontl, the celebrated amateus of Milan, Italy. This wateh, which has a perpetual calendar, indicating the days of the month, the days of the week and the phases of the moon, also possesses two separate small dlals, upon which are shown automatically for a given latitude the time of the rising of the sun and the time of its setting. The difficulty over- come here was great, but what com- prises the merit of the plece is that, in connection with the minute hands, which show the mean time (the time we use), it carries another hand which Indicates the sun's time (the true time). This hand, moving from the center, as do the kands showing the mean time, constant- ly traveis with them and automatically places itself each day at midnight in the position it should occupy In order to in- Gicate for that day the difference between the mean and true time. The variatiou is very great, being as much as fifteen minutes in one direction or the other. These dates are April 15, June 15, Sep~ tember 1 and December &