Delaplane, Kristin

May 12, 1996

Abstract: Last in a series The jail in Benicia was unable to hold a prisoner accused of larceny. In fact, the jail was so rarely used that it was not in shape to hold anyone. The prisoner was carted off to the jail in Martinez. A Chinese gentleman at the Solano Hotel was arrested and taken to San Francisco by one of the emissaries of the Chinese Secret Society. The local Chinese house had been broken up in Benicia, but apparently some were still active in the society and had made complaints to the society in San Francisco that this man had in some way disobeyed their mandates.