A Chinese Execution

Hanging an Interpreter for Doing His Duty.

MONTEREY, July 13.—Yesterday afternoon about 4 o’clock Tom Wong, a Chinese fisherman, familiarly known as “Tom,” was found dead, hanging to a tree in the woods about thirty yards in the rear of the Chinese Mission, near Pacific Grove. Tom was the only Chinese voter in the county and an ardent Republican. He spoke both English and Spanish fluently and knew a little Portuguese. He was frequently engaged as Court interpreter, and the general impression is that he was murdered, from the fact that his head was not more than four inches from the limb to which he was hanging and his feet within three inches of the ground. No inquiry had been made on account of his absence. There are apparent scars on his head and face, and he has probably been dead two or three days. He frequently expressed fears that he would be made away with on account of interpreting adversely to some of the Chinese.