, 1884-12-30
A MANGLED MONGOLIAN.
Chinese Wash Artist Very
Cleverly Done Up.
One of His Brutal Assailants
Afterwards Arrested.
Leasing of Indian Lands Still
Under Consideration.
A Murderous Chinaman.

New YORK, December 29.-Three
Cinnamon said to be from this city, as
saulted Hong Chong, a laundryman Of
their race, in Newark last week, robbed
him, cut him with matches, carved him
with knives and believing him dead strung
him up to a after and left hun hanging.
His landlord found him and prompt aid
saved his life. From descriptions given
by him the police got on the track of the
leader of the murderous gang and made
him a prisoner. The information convey
ed to the police last Saturday was that
three of the Hong Chong countrymen
from New York had visited his laundry
in the evening and while chatting with
him had overpowered him in an I'M
guarded moment, stabbed, bound and
gagged him and her robbed his store at
leisure. In the stovepipe they found his
money 5000, and having. secured it return
ed and us they believed finished the owner
and departed locking the store behind
them. They had not been at pains to
conceal their identity, meaning evidently
to kill their victim and prevent him from
betraying them. Hong Chong was there
fore able to direct the search of the
officers with intelligent counsel from his
sick bed and Detectives Sergeant Haley and
Rutland got on the track of the leader OF
the murderens in short order. They fol-
lowed him up and last night found him
in his room, No. ll2 Delaney street,
where he was living with a young German
girl. When the detectives broke in the
door the Chinaman leaped out of a win
dow and ran down the street. He was
pursued by the officers who overlook him
on the corner of Norfolk street, one block
below. Here a fierce fight took place.
The Chinaman is tall, athletic and slip
perry and fought with savage fury to get
away, using his hands, feet and teeth in
the struggle.
Tom Sing served as officers steward on
board the jeanette during her hapless
northern expedition and again a year ago
went North with the Greedy relief expedi-
ton, this trip the police claim he made to
escape the consequences of a previous
murder. About a year ago a Chinese
laundryman was found dead in the store
No, II Clinton street, There were seven
teen knife wounds in his back. His trunk
had been broken open and riled and the
store generally sacked. The murderer was
never found, but from the savage charac-
ter of the assault it was deemed to be inc
of the dead mans own race. The police
claim to have proof that Tom Sing was
the murderer for gain.
The detectives arrested the German
companion of the Chinaman and took her
TO the police headquarters. Tom Sing had
claimed to know nothing Of the Newark
outrage and that he was in New York the
day it occurred. The girl after much
crying and hesitation admitted that on
the day of the assault she had given him
money to go to Newark. That he had
gone there for what purpose she did not
know and returned at night with his
clothes torn and apparently much wor-
RED, and that when questioned by her he
had admitted he had been with a party
who had robbed, and as they thought,
killed a Chinaman in a New jersey
town. They had, he said tied him and
chopped him up with an axe and after
ward strung him up to a rafter, thinking
him dead.
The Chinese Counsnl secured the at
tendance to-day of witnesses from New
ark who positively identify the prisoner
as one of the would be murderers.