The Governor Would Not Send Loy Sen Back
Washington's governor refused California's requisition for a Chinese woman accused of a $1,000 swindle, a case her friends called persecution.
OLYMPIA, July 22.—Governor McBride has refused to honor the requisition of the governor of California for the return of Loy Sen, the Chinese woman whose arrest was caused in Seattle recently by San Francisco officers. It is alleged that she swindled a wealthy Chinese man in San Francisco out of $1,000 several months ago. Loy Sen denies the charge, and her friends claim that she is being persecuted.
“Loy Sen denies the charge and her friends claim that she is being persecuted.”
Extradition fights are still about whose law follows a person across state lines, and this case shows how racialized language shaped coverage of Chinese residents during the exclusion era. Loy Sen's insistence that she was being persecuted is a reminder to read the paper's tone against the legal record.
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