San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-13
CHINESE MURDERS IN FRISCO
ASA ssins Who Eat Wild Cat, g
Hearts to Screw Up Their
Courage

ASA ssins Who Eat Wild Cat.s
Hearts to Screw Up Their
Courage.
San Francisco Examiner.
Last years death rate among the
Chinese by the knife and pistol was
extraordinarily large, but this pre-
sent homicidal crop gives promise of
breaking the record, il some preven-
tive measures are not taken by the
authorities to check the slaughter.
Chief Crowley did attempt some
months ago to break up these hatch
cries of black mail and murder by
destroying the furniture and appoint
ments of their assembly rooms and
scattering the members of the society
all over the coast. The vigorous
treatment of the growing evil had n
most salutary effect for time, but
the relief was only temporary, as the
memt ers of the various organizations
which had been raided soon recover
ed from their approximations and
again returned to the city.
The meeting of the various "tongs"
are now held Is for yore, where black
mailing plots are conceived and vic
tins selected for the knife and bull
ct, but instead of the deliberations
being held at the society head quar-
ters, their prospective work of robbery
aud bloOdshed is now discussed in
opiumdens and the back rooms OF
merchandise stores where it is impOss-
ible to secure any evidence against
them.
That they do meet and are still &C.
tive in their eXserminsting war upon
rival organizations Is demonstrated by
the two murders which have marked
the opening of the new year, the last
one occurring last Wednesday when
Fong Git, an sttache of the Jackson
Street Theater, was shot and killed
by members of the Suey Sing society
Detectives Cox and Glennon, who
have probably had more experience
with the criminal element of China
town than other attaches of the Po-
lice Department., claim that their
efforts in the suppression OF crime in
the Chinese district are seriously
hampered by the slow revolution of
the wheels OF justice In our police
courts and the perjured evidence of
both whites and Chinese which 10
purchased with money supplied from
the treasures Of the highlander 30
| cieties.
1t Is furthermore stated that the
friends and relatives of the various
victims of highlander vengeance, in
| stead of invoking the aid OF the police
in redressing their grievances, become
impressed with the idea that no Jus
| tice can be obtained in the American
| courts, and so they take the law int
their own hands aud retaliate in
kind.
That the machinery of the courts
has been utilized to shield this class
OF criminals rather than punish them
Is demonstrated by the number OF
Chinese murderers who have escaped
paying the extreme penalty of the
law although detected red-handed
| in the crime.
The case of Lee Chuck Ia q notab
instance of the power welded by
these societies in the protection of one
of their members.
Lee Chuck murdered Yen Yuen in
broad daylight on July rs, 1886, and
while running from the scene, of the
crime was overhauled by policeman
Martin, whom he also attempted to
kill with pistol. This fatality was
the outgrowth of war then pending
between the Bo Sin Scar and the Gil
| Sin Scar societies. Over $40, 900 was
expended by the two societies, one in
the prosecution and the other in the
| defense. Two or three new trials
were granted by the Supreme Court,
the last one resulting in sentence OF
fifty years in San Quentin.
On April 30 last Lee Nun, a high
binder, stabbed Chinese woman
through the heart on the corner OF
Jackson and Dupont streets. He was
the associations ares the principal
Highlander organizations of the city,
all having branches throughout the
entire coast, where a thief or an as
ssssin who is too closely pressed in
the city can find refuge and assIs-
lance in eluding capture.
With all his shrewdness. treachery
and cunning, the average Highlander
is stepped in superstition. When