The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-29
A DASTARDLY DEED.
a CHINAMAN KILLED BY FOUR
POLICEMEN.


Details OF the Bloody and Disgrace
Iul Affair as Gathered by n Times
Democrat Reporter.
AT 10 o'clock last night a Chinaman,
named Henry Lung, was shot in the left
eye and MORALLY wounded by one of
four policemen named respectively j.
Moberry, h. +. Evans, +, Sontag and the
Fourth Court officer whose name is not
known to any of the witnesses, but is
described as man who limps and who
wore red moustache. The policemen
were all drunk, and were returning to
theirIhomes, walking up Burgundy street
in the direction of Canal.
On reaching the square, between Cont
and Bienville streets, they saw two negro
girls on the steps, and began hostilities
b. applying impertinent remarks to
them. As the girls arose to get a way
from them one of the officers knocked
one of the girls down and the other ran
into the cook shop, No. 65 Burgundy
street. The officers pursued her into the
house, but not finding her, returned TO
the street, where they met negro named
James Smith standing near the entrance
and they engaged him in conversation.
They finally ordered him to remove from
the place or they would arrest him. Be-
fore the negro could carry out the instruc-
the throat and choked him, while an
other put pistol to his head and threat
ened to blow his brains out If he opened
his mouth.
The negro, believing that he was about
to be murdered, broke from his captors
and started down Burgundy street in the
direction of Bienville.
The moment the negro began running
the police drew their revolvers and began
some seventeen or eighteen shots had
been fired.
Three of the officers pursued the negro
on the woods side of the street, while the
man described as the court officer and
lame crossed over to the river side of
Burgundy street.
The man continued firing until tho
Chinaman, Henry Lung, who occupied
the garnet room of the opium joint, at
the corner of Burgundy and Bienvilie
street, raised his window and poked his
head out to see what the shooting and
noise was about.
His curiosity will cost him his life, for
his almond eye became a target for the
drunken officer, and, taking aim at II,
he sent the bullet on its deadly errand,
His aim was good, and the leaden mis-
siIe penetrated the Chinaman's left eye
and buried itself in the brain.
The unknown officer, ignorant of the
bloody work he had done, joined his
companions In the pursuit of the negro
James Smith, firing at every step he
took.
Officer Creagh, whose beat was BEN
vile street, hearing the shooting ran in
the direction from whence 1t came, and,
meeting James Smith running, halted
him and made him prisoner.
The negro had hardly been placed
under arrest when Moberry, Evans and
Sontag came up and informed Officer
Creagh that the prisoner had shot
Chinaman, and they would assist him In
taking him to prison.
James Smith was takon to the Third
Station and locked up, charged with
shooting and dangerously wounding
Henry Lung. The arrest had hardly
been recorded and the officers taken
their departure when the true facts of
the case were made known by Corporal
O'Neill, who had visited the scene and
found that the police had committed the
cowardly and bloody crime, AZ that
they had attempted TO sneak out of the
responsibility by arresting the negro
Smith.
AS soon as the police reached the
house OF the Chinaman they sent for the
ambulance, and the wounded Celestial
was taken to the Charity Hospital. The
physicians examined his wound and ex-
pressed the opinion that he had but
few hours to live.
Capt. Mccartney, on ascertaining the
facts in the case, Immediately repaired
to his station and notified the entire po-
lice force to arrest on sight Officers j.
Moberry, j. Sontag, II. +. Adams and
John Saunders, alias John Sunday, who
is supposed to be the court officer.
Upto o'clock their capture had not
been effected.
When Smith was interviewed, he sta
ted that one of the balls had grazed his
left leg, infiicting slight wound. He
gave a clear statement or the attack on
him by the police, saying that the man
who choked him was named Moberry,
or rather that is the name his compan-
ions called him by.
Smiths statement is fully corrobora-
ted by Michael Grille, white boy, who
was near the scene and received n bullet
through the coat.
Toby Simmons, another witness to the
fight, had bullet to Craze his left cheek.
A revolver, with five chambers empty,
supposed to belong to one of the officers,
was found in Burgundy street and
brought to the station.
The neighbors who reside in the vicin-
ity of the shooting denounce the affair
in unmeasured terms as one of the most
cruel and disgraceful affairs that has
ever taken place on the street.
j. Moberry and III. +. Evans, two of
the officers implicated in the affray, had
been on duty at the fifth ward poll
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