The Strange Odyssey of Lee Fook Bow

The case of Lee Fook Bow, the Chinese merchant and accused perjurer, has always been one full of unexpected developments. A new surprise was the granting of a motion to quash the indictment when the case was called for trial yesterday in the United States court. There is very little doubt that Lee is guilty, but Judge Hanford granted the motion to quash on the ground that the indictment was not drawn with sufficient attention to detail. The wily Chinese will not go free, however, and he was remanded to jail to await the action of the United States grand jury. This means six months more in jail for him unless he gives bonds of $1,000. Columns of newspaper stories have been written about Lee Fook Bow and the way he overstepped the limits of the law in swearing that a brown Chinese girl whom he was bringing into the United States for immoral purposes was his wife. While on the way up from San Francisco he attempted to commit suicide by opium, but a stomach pump saved him. He had a vision while unconscious and now insists with the greatest gravity that he then died and was born again. He says he is a new man and that his name is now 'The Man Who Has Been to Heaven and Come Back.'