People
Ziang
Sung Wan
(1895-1968).
Young man accused of murder, abused
by police to obtain a confession, convicted and sentenced to be
hanged.
Louis
D. Brandeis
(1856-1941). Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who penned
the opinion in the case of Ziang Sung Wan v. United
States.
Theodore
Ting Wong (1876-1919).
Shanghai-born, American-educated
head of the Chinese Educational Mission, murdered in Washington, DC in 1919.
Raymond
W. Pullman (1883-1920).
Chief of the Washington Police Department who oversaw the
investigation of the murders.
Tsong
Ing Van (1898-aft. 1950).
Younger brother of Ziang Sung Wan who was suspected of collusion and charged
with forgery.
Warren
G. Harding (1865-1923).
President of the United States, asked to commute the
sentence of Ziang Sung Wan in 1921.
William
Howard Taft (1857-1930).
Former President and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court during Ziang Sung Wan's appeal.
John
W. Davis (1873-1955). Former
Solicitor General and Democratic presidential nominee who joined
in Wan’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
George
W. Wickersham
(1858-1936). Former Attorney General whose commission exposed widespread abuse in police
interrogation methods.
Zechariah
Chafee, Jr. (1885-1957). Harvard Law School
civil libertarian who authored one of the final
reports of the Wickersham Commission.
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