Saturday, June 24, 2017

 

Herriman Saturday


February 19 1909 -- Illegal Chinese lottery tickets are found by the L.A. cops, and a whole group of Asian-American suspects are hauled into court. They maintain unanimously that the tickets are merely cards with poetry written on them. Their explanation unravels when each is brought into the court separately and asked to translate the verse.

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