Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1906 — A Chinese Criminal. [ARTICLE]

A Chinese Criminal.

Here is a grim story, showing the guile of the “heathen Chinee.” One day Dennis Spencer, a prominent criminal attorney of Napa, received a call from a Chinese, who, without circumlocution, at once put tbis question; “Splose, Mr. Spencer, one Chinaman kill ’notber Chinaman with hatchet, how chlarge make him clear?” “Oh,” said the lawyer, carelessly, “I’d take the ease for $500.” In about a week the Chinaman returned and laid the sum of SSOO on Mr. Spencer’s desk. “What’s this for?” asked the lawyer. “You say you take case for $500,” explained the Oriental. A light burst upon Mr. Spencer. Horrified, he exclaimed, “You mean to tell me that since I saw yon last one of your countrymen has been killed?” “Certainly,” calmly answered the Chinaman. “I kill him last night”