Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-24
SHOT DOWN BY A CHINAMAN.
Lee Quong Fatally Wounds "Black
Tom," Negro Burglar.

AOhS negro burglar.
TIE VICTIM HAD ENTERED A IAuSpnv Aeorr
MrDNIaHr AND ITS OCCUPANTS AwoKE WHEN he
FIRED AT THEN-rHEY RETURNED TIE coMp1r-
MENT WITH EFFECT.
"How do you feel this morning2" inquired
| Lieut. Kelly of the Chinese occupant of Q cell
| in the sixth precinct this morning.
Il feel velly bad, velly bad" was his reply.
The Chinaman was Lee Quong, q laundry
| man, who was held on q charge of infiicting
| fatal injuries on an alleged desperate negro
| burglar known as "Black Tom," but whose
| right name is said to be George Carter. He
also travels under the alias OF Thomas Thomp-
! son.
Every Sunday night all the Cinnamon in the
city lock up their establishments and 60 in
body to visit one Of their number and spend
the evening with him. They do not usually re-
turn home until midnight later and Carter,
1t Is alleged, has heretofore taken advantage of
their absence and robbed a number of the
laundrles from time to time. Last night, 1t is
| stated, he had robbed four laundries and was
burglarizing the fifth when he received two
pistol shot wounds that it is thought will surely
prove fatal
BLACK TOM BURdLARToUs EXPLOITS LAST MONT.
The first places Black Tom is said to have
| and Jim Kee at No. 1919 and 1921 It'll street
northwest About s20 and satchel we're taken
from these rooms. The next place on the route
was the laundry of Moy Yeun, No. PA Ii street.
Inc burglar, 1t is stated, entered the adjoining
YARD, Jumped over the fence and broke open
the back door. He then ransacked the back
room and secured more than SO from the
money drawer. Mrs. Brown, who occupies the
rooms over the laundry, heard the noise,
out she paid no attention to- it, be-
Cause she thought the Cinnamon we're
| returning home. 1t was then shortly after 10
CLOCK. The party had not then broken up
ana Carter WAS not in danger of apprehension.
he succeeded SO well that it is said, he then
went to Moy Foon's, No. 3l2 Sd street. and also
secured some plumber.
HIS LAST MIDNraHr BURGLARY.
The hour Of midnight had been tolled on the
city bells and BLACK Tom" wended his way to
the Ashton house. He had no idea, probably,
that the Cinnamon had returned and expected
to make an easy haul, as he had at the other
places, and depart unmolested. HIS anticipa-
tons, however, were not realized, for Lee
Quong and his cousins, Lee Sing aud Lee Kipp,
returned home earlier than usual The laundry
| is In No. 3l3 Pennsylvania avenue, and the
upper portion of the house is occupied as q
boarding house known as the Ashton house.
The apartments occupied by the China
men were formerly two rooms,
but small partitions subdivide them
into four distinct rooms. The small front
room Is where the business is conducted, and
Just behind the front partition are two hunks
on which the almoud-eye Celestlals rest their
weary bodies. The next room is a much larger
one and Is used as cooking and dining room.
In the last room is piled all sorts of rubbish
and the clothes are also washed in it,
1t was somewhere near IL 80 o'clock when
the three Lees turned in for the night and
pulled the red bunk covering over them. They
were then ready for good nights rest and it
took them but few minutes to get into
dream lanl."
sLEEPERs AROUSED.
About midnight there was noise heard in
the rooms, which awakened one Of the China
men. One Lee nudged another and asked:
who there? Listen" Then Lee Quong sat
up in his bed and picked up Frontier" A
caliber revolver.
The negro burglar heard the Chinaman ask
who thereI and knowing he would not stand
much chance among the Celestials fired one
shot either to scare or kill and Lee Quong re-
turned the fire. The negro and Cinnamon
were both in darkness and the only light in the
| establishment was what came through the front
window from the electric light outside.
BLACK TOMS FIRE RETURNED.
The murderous burglar received the large
bullet from the Chinaman's revolver in the
back and then jumped behind the wooden par
tition to save himself from further injury. but
Lee Quong fired against the partition and that
bullet entered the burglars body near the
spinal column. A third shot was fired bv the
Cmnaman, but 1t did not take effect. The bull
let that went through the partition also passed
through the top OF tin boiler and a theatrical
sign board of wood before it took effect in the
| burglars body. The badly wounded negro
| made his way from the Chinese quarters and
fell to the pavement with cry of MY God;
I'm killed"
q wa mic rod h,,t 10
tracted by the shooting and placed in the door
way of the hotel Policeman Mansfield and
Sergeant Boyle were soon on hand and Lee
Quong was arrested. He then knew for the
first time that his shots had taken effect.
THE WOUNDED MAN.
DR.. Hlckling called to attend the
wounded man. but his condition was such that
nothing could be done for him there and at
| the doctors suggestion the police ambulance
came and removed HIM to Ereedman's hospital
ABADLY FRIGHTENED CHINAMAS.
The Chinaman a badly frightened man
when he entered the station house and thought
he would have to suffer severely for the shots.
but the officers assured him that beyond spend
ing short time in the police cell until the
affair was investigated no harm was likely to
befall hlm. The police were disposed to praise
| rather than condemn him for what he had
done. Quong could not tell of but one shot
toe hc hau III GU. oAtAouSA SdIt tI coat SHOWS
three bullet holes.
THE BURGLAR CARRIED TWO PISTOLS
The condition of the wounded man was SO
critical when he arrived at the hospital that
the doctors were afraid to probe for the balls.
When the negro was examined the officers
| found two revolvers and an oyster knife on
him. The knife, it is thought, was used in
! opening doors. trunks, &C., at the places he
| robbed. One of the revolvers was a Smith &
Wesson, and that one he used to shoot at the
Cinnamon. The other weapon was the prop
| erty of Moy Yeun, and had just been taken
| from his place. This morning all the
| reports of the robberies were made to the po-
| lice and they were satisfied that Carter had
committed them. The police determined to
learn if possible who were his accomplices.
| They were sure that some other person was
working with him, because he had disposed of
| all the money he had taken.
THE ALLEGED ACCoMPLICE OF THE BURGLAR
Policeman John Daley went to the hospital
and got confession from the dying man. who
implicated Joseph Hunter, l7-year-old white
boy. The officer then went to Hunters house
| at 9th and Q streets and placed him under
| arrest. In the house the officer found
considerable money, number of
Chinese coins and a cross made of
the coins. Among the boys effects were about
| one hundred keys of all descriptions and also
some collars that bore marks OF a Chinese
laundry. The boys parents knew moth