The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-17
QUEER CASE OF CHIN HI YUNE
OUT AND WILL At ESQ 4. M, LOCKED
UP AND DEAD IT H.
His Imperturbnhle Brother Saws Into tho
Room Without Inquiry. aud Cn,InlY

uia Imperturbnhle Brother Saws Into tho
Room without Inquiry, and Calmly
Announces the DeccnSc-Two Arrests.
Chin III Yuno kept laundry at 1918 Second
avenue. Ills brother. Chin III lIc, owns an.
other laundry on Avenue B. They wero both
Sunday school Cinnamon, and attended the
mission on Fourth avenue. below Eighth
street. Chin XII Yune employed an assistant
named Hong Lee JOY ur TO Saturday night.
when the two quarrcllod over q matter OF
money. and tho assistant departed. Tho quar-.
rel. so says John Phillips. who lives overhead,
was apparently serious. Tho two Cinnamon
jipged money in their hands and shouted.
Yesterday morning Phillips came down stairs
at ESQ and found Chin HI Yune standing smil.
ing on the doorstep.
Hullo. john" said Phillips.
Hullo" said Yuns, grinninG. Fine mon
in"
At II o'clock Brother Chin ri He came round
and tried the door OF the laundry. 1t was
looked. SO was the back door. Then he got
carpenter on the next block to saw the wooden
bars In front Of the back window. climbed in.
and remained inside about five minutes. Then
he came out tho front door. and saw Phillips
on the sidewalk.
"Iune dead" said Chin H h. in q NATTER
oi-fact tone.
is Tint so ?" exclaimed PhlllIps astonlshod.
no tnlnalnhn nodded RraVely. Come,
see. said he. entering the laundry Phillips
went in. The laundry. two bedrooms and
kitchen were in rerlrct order Chin III Yune
was wing fiat on his back on his cot bed behind
the laundry with his head hanging over ono
side Of the bed. He had no shoes and stockings
on and his body was almost cold. They lifted
his head on tho pillow and went outside.
Detectives Doran and Doyle examined the
body They found that q good deal OF blood
had run from Chin Hi lune's nose. His left
eye was hlackened. and they thought they
found a bruise on the back OF his head They
learned that chin hi He had already emptied
the till, and while they were there lie tried to
search his dead biothers clothes for money;
but they wouldn't let him. though no SAID he
was the owner Of the Laundry. There wore
only 50 cents in tho till. Ihoy learned from
PHILLIPS about tho quarrel with Hong Leo Jov,
and also that the brothers had uumrrelrl
lateY. They concluded that it was suspicious
that Chin Nj llo should have had the WIN
dow bars sawed fifteen minutes h'ier finding
the door locked, so thev arrested him. Hong
l.oe Joy tnrnod up aDout2 o'clock and card
about his former employers sudden death
without apparent surprise. Policeman Lcaney
arrested him.
At night Coroner Schultze examined the
body. He could find no wound or bruises nni
thought the discoloraton OF the eye was due
70 the pressure Of That sido of the face against
the bed; lie will make an autopsy to-day.
Chin HI lie told the Coroner mat his brother
was only 20 years Old, married and tho father
OF three children. lie did not smokc tobacco
or hit the pipe, but Went to SUNDAY school and
Chin Hi iune's Sunday school superintendent
will be consulted about the disposition OF the
remains,