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Book Title: History Of Contra Costa County, California

   MURDER OF AH HUNG.—The salient facts in this case are as follows: The
deceased, Ah Hung, some two months previously opened a new wash-house at
Pacheco, and subsequently took Ah Sing into partnership relations. There was
also a Chinese boy, Ting Gow, employed in the establishment. They all retired as
usual on the night of Sunday, January 16, 1876, Ah Hung sleeping in an inner
apartment, Ah Sing in an outer room, on a table, and the boy, Ung Gow, on the
floor, under the table. About daylight the boy was awakened by a noise, and
heard Ah Hung exclaiming that he was killed. He ran into the room and saw Ah
Sing attempting to haul him off the bed and chopping him with a hatchet. The boy
attempted to pull Ah Sing away, but he turned and struck at him with the
hatchet, inflicting one or two cuts and saying he would kill him too. Ung Gow
ran out to escape him, and went directly to the other wash-house, up the street,
to give the alarm and find protection, but was refused admittance and driven
away. He then went over to the place of Mr. Tiedeman and reported what had
occurred. Constable Henry Wells was the first to visit the scene of the
homicide, and there found the deceased in the front apartment, still with life
enough remaining to make some moans of suffering, and most horribly hacked, and
he survived but a few moments. From the appearance of the place it was evident
that the dead man had made a fearful struggle for life after being mortally
wounded, the floor and walls were marked with bloody hand-prints, showing where
he had endeavored to regain his feet, while blood clots and even pieces of bone
from his skull lay about the floor and on the walls. The murderer was captured
and had on his person clothing and money, together with a purse identified as
the property of the deceased. April 19, 1876, Ah Sing was tried, made the plea
of murder in the second degree, and was sentenced to forty-five years
imprisonment in the State Prison.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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