The Portland daily press., 1886-07-19
A MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
Bin chong, chinaman, Killed in
Boston.
No Clue to the Perpetrator of the
Horrible Deed.

Boston, July 18.-When little girl went
to the laundry of Bin Chong at o'clock this
morning to get her fathers linen she saw,
upon pushing open the door, the mutilated
dead body of the proprietor lying on the
floor in a pool of blood. She ran to her
home and told what she had seen, whereupon
her father went to the laundry and imme-
diately 'afterward notified the police. In
vestigation showed that Bin Chong had been
horribly butchered The body was lying on
its back and was completely surrounded by
pool of blood, while everything in the room
was spattered with blood, giving evidence of
terrible struggle In the mans head and
body were dozen wounds, any one of which
would have been sufficient to have caused
instant death. His throat was cut from ear
to ear, the head being nearly severed from
the body His spinal column was severed
iust below the back of the neck, while
terrible cash, extending from the mouth TO
the left ear, which must nave Deen pc naas Dy of
the lower jaw and all of the teeth on that
side of his mouth. A cash clear across the
abdomen and almost deep enough to have
cut the man in twain had completely disem-
boWelled the victim In either eye were
stab wounds so deep that the knife must
have passed through the brain. Besides
these there were many deep wounds Id the
head and body, and score OF minor ones.
The Chinaman's queue had been cut on ciose
to his head and was found lying on the floor
beside the victim. The remains were taken
to the City Hospital morgue, where Medical
Examiner Draper held an autopsy.
Bin ChOng was SO years old. lie came here
from China about four years ago, when he
hired the first floor room of $50 Shawmut
avenue for a laundry. The room was after
wards divided by thin pine partition, max
ing two apartments, one OF Whlcn was SUD
let by the Chinaman to Jude Costelio,
colored barber. The partition was SO frall
that any noise in either room could be DIS.
tinctly heard in the other. The occupants OF
either apartment worked late and slept IN
his own room. Last night at IL O'Clock Cos
served strange Chinaman passing back
and forth in front of Bin Chong's establish
ment, stopping occasionally to peer cautious
ly within. An hour later the stranger
entered Bin Chong's shop, and Costello
retired for the night. He for some time
heard conversation in the next room, and
also heard the clinking of money, The con-
versation was carried on in the Chinese Ian
guage but appeared to be OF a friendly
nature. Costello having dropped asleep,
knew nothing more of the affair until ap-
prised of the murder this morning.
Suspicion rested upon Costello Tor Time,
because it appeared strange that he should
not have heard the noise Of the struggle that
must nave Cdk0u pldCc Wltuih eott iSOV "
him. The police are convinced that the
mysterious Chinaman seen by Costello is the
perpetrator of the deed, and an active search
for him is being made. He is described. by
Costello as rather understood man, OF
particularly effeminate appearance. Bin
Chong was great favorite in the neighbor-
hood. which is composed of the poorer
classes, and was regarded as a peaceable and
inoffensive man. He had saved a compe-
tency. and was about to close out his bust
ness preparatory to leaving for China. This
fact, if generally known to his countrymen,
may have furnished motive for the deed.