Multnomah County OR Archives News.....Indicted For Importing Women September 21, 1904
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Morning Oregonian September 21, 1904
San Fransisco,Sept.20- H.L.Eca de Silva,ex-interpreter in the San FRansisco 
Chinese Bureau,under Commissioner North,was arrested today in St.Louis by 
UNited States Secret Service men on a warrant telegraphed from this city on an 
indictment by the Federal Grand Jury,De Silva was taken before a UNited States 
Commissioner and ordered removed to San FRansisco for trial. He and Lee 
Toy,known as the Mayor of Chinatown,in Philadelphia,will be arraigned on 
September 26 on a charge of importing women into the UNited States for immoral 
purposes.
Lee Toy,whow as arrested five days ago,was released today on $5000 bail. De 
Silva and Toy arrived form China on the Doric,a few weeks ago with 207 Chinese 
acrobats and 12 Chinese women for the Exposition at St.Louis. Four of the 
women confesses that they and their companions were slave and were being 
brought to the United States for immoral purposes. The four were not permitted 
to land but the eight other women were allowed to proceed.

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