Immediately following the trial of Chow Chee, Yo Hing sent Lee Leeung to abduct Yut Ho (Yit Ho / Ute How), the wife of Heng Shun. Yut Ho was taken from her house by Lee Leeung with three others, and then dragged to Justice Trafford’s office. Against her will and without knowing what was going on, she was married to Lee Leeung. Heng Shun then had Yut Ho brought before the County Judge, Ygnacio Sepulveda, on a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Sepulveda ordered Yut Ho returned to Heng Shun. But immediately after the trial, Yo Hing’s men went after Yut Ho and captured her again. This time, the police intervened and returned Yut Ho to Heng Shun. Later that night, Yut Ho was abducted yet again. This time she was taken to District Judge Murray Morrison. Heng Shun attempted to intervene, but was kept from entering the Court. After the hearing in Judge Morrison’s Court, Yut Ho was taken away by Lee Leeung.
At least four of Yo Hing’s men were arrested as a result of these events. Hearings would continue until March 13th, at which time the parties involved bonded-out and agreed to wait for the next Grand Jury. Only one subsequent mention of the case appears in the Los Angeles Daily News on April 21st:
BILL OF SALE. -- Two Chinese, one of them a prominent "merchant," yesterday took out a certified copy of the marriage license issued some time since in the case which caused so much trouble. The copy is doubtless intended to act as a legal bill of sale in some complicated transfer.
Three more Chinese marriages would occur later that year in October; on the 3rd and10th in Justice Gray’s Court, and on the 20th in Justice Trafford’s Court.
The steamer California left San Francisco on October 16th and arrived at San Pedro on the 18th. The California brought with her, Ah Choy, Fun Wa, Fun Cow and Tung Chu. Ah Choy was Yut Ho's brother. Ah Choy and the other three men were hired to kill Yo Hing.
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| Courtesy California Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside. |
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The Affray
The Chinese Massacre of 1871
The Aftermath
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Anti-Chinese Violence
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