The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-11-22
THE HIGHBINDER WAR.
lnquests Held on the Bodies of the
Slain Chinese.


Highlander warfare was temporarily sus-
pended in Chinatown yesterday owing to
the vigilance OF the police. Many of the
fighting men of the rival tongs sulked
through the alleys in the noisome quarter.
but could not resume murderous operations
because they were too closely watched.
Tie MoDgol Matchmaking societies, how
ever, are constantly receiving REINFORCE
ments from interior towns. The prospects
are. therefore. good for more blood-spillinR
when the vigilance CT the officers is re-
leased
Coroner Garwood held inquests vester-
day on the bodies OF the two highbinders
who were shot down on the streets last
week. One jury found that Wong All Wye,
the collector for the Sam Ups, who was
MORALLY wounded on Stockton street Satur-
day morning, was capitalist" and that
he died from bullet wounds inflicted by
Wong All zee. zee was charged with
murder, but he has not yet been captured.
In the case of Chuu Jow Hung, the
shrimp-deale: who was shot last Friday
night, the Coroner's jury found that he was
murdered by Wong Guam Git. Git is In
custody. and was identified as the assassin
before his victims death.
There Is quite a story attached TO the
shriveled-up little expressman who drove
up to the Morgue yesterday afternoon to
cart away the bodies of the dead high
binders. Chow Sang Wing is his name. and
be has been victim himself of highlander
vengeance. He'is nearly 20 years old, and
for twenty years has driven an express
wagon in Chinatown. Four years ago his
nephew was killed by high binders in Sulli-
van alley. The assassins escaped. Soon
after the bloodthirsty backmailers gave
information to the police that caused poor
old Chow Sang Wings arrest on a charge of
numbering his nephew. For two years Wing
was confined In the County Jail before his
trial Then seven Celestiais appeared in the
Superior Court and swOre positively that
they saw Wing kill his nephew. The wit
nesses were all highbinders, and committed
perjury of the rankest kind in their attempt
to swear the old mans life away. So strong
was the testimony that Wing was convicted
of murder in the first degree and sentenced
to be hanged.
An appeal was taken to the Supreme
Court and Wing remained another year In
jail while awaiting a decision. Finally a
new hearing was granted and the case came
mp second time for trial before Judge
Murphy.
But the Mongols who testified during the
first trial were missing. Fearing arrest on
IA charge of perjury, they had fed the
country. So the charge OF murder was dis
missed.
Wing who had been under the shadow of
the gallows for three years, had still a
deeper blow to bear. During his imprison-
ment his two children had died. his prop
erty had been stolen, and his wife had dis
appeared.
When he drove into Dunbar alley yester-
day Wing greeted a CALL reporter who
often conversed with him while he was in
Jail. "0ld friend, heap good friend" ex-
claimed Wing joyously. Then he impaired
the Information that he had again found
his wife and was prosporing once more as
en- expressman.
''Me heap no longer fight highbinders."
continued the old fellow; me work for
them; me haulee dead bodies" aud he
grinned as he showed the box containing the
remains OF the late Wong All Wye into his
wagon.