The herald., 1893-08-12
THE MURDER WAS OVER FAN TAN.
Real Facts of the Murder of
Quong All Yack.
His Murderer Has a Bloody Record
In the Past.
He Boasts of the Murder of the "Peru-
vian Prlncess"-The Present Trou-
BILE Began in Los Angeles.
Still Fugitive.

There will soon be another Chinese
murder trial in Los Angeles which will
vie in sensational developments with
the recent celebrated case OF Quon All
Moon, for the murder OF Guet How, one
of the favorite bellies OF Chinatown.
The scene OF this latest tragedy was
in the sriatocratic pleasure haven OF
Santa Monica. and the time lacked
little OF midnight Wednesday night.
The neighborhood in the vicinity OF
Fourth street and Utah avenue was
startled at that hour by fusilade of
shots, and when City Marshal Max
Barretto and several others who hurried
to the scene reached there, they found
Quong All Yeck fast bleeding his life
away from bullet wound which had
torn through his left lung.
The Cninaman who had fred the fatal
shot was Quong All Yen, and he had
fed in the darkness and is still at large.
The shooting had commenced in the
second story over Sam Lees laundry,
which is Chinese gambling den, where
the festive Celestials indulge in their
national game of fan tan. Sheriff Cline
was at once informed of the shooting
and early yesterday morning dispatched
| Deputy Sheriff John G. Wray to Santa
Monica to ferret out the details and if
possible to arrest the fugitive Yen.
Quong Ah Yeck lived about three
quarters Of an hour, but before he died
he made declaration to the effect that
Quong All Yen had shot him, and such
was the verdict of the jury empaneled
by Coroner Gates yesterday morning.
Deputy Wray learned that the trouble
between the men had its origin in this
city about three weeks ago over a game
OF fan tan. Yen is a professional gam
bier and Yeck is professional dealer OF
fan tan. In the trouble of three weeks
ago Yen struck Yeck over the head with
a six-shooter, inflicting an ugly scalp
wound. Yeck the next day went to a
pawn shop and bought 4l-calibre
Colts revolver. and had carried it ever
since in anticipation OF further diff
Guilty with Yen.
Wednesday night was the first time
the two had met since the former diff
Guilty, as Yeck lived in Santa Monica
and Yen here. Yen went down to Santa
Monica Wednesday evening and had
not been there long before he went to
Sam Lees place, and up into the gam
bling den where Yeck was dealing fan
tan.
Yen has been in poor luck OF late, and
being rather short of cash undertook to
"shoestring" the game with the small
change he had. To this Yeck objected,
and insisted that he should not play
unless he could play the limit. A quar-
rel ensued, and a lively scuffie was
heard by those on the first floor before
the shooting commenced, and then sud
denly Yeck came tumbling and rolling
down the short, narrow stairway. and as
he fell Yen poured the hot lead into his
anatomy. Yeck's pistol had hung in
his pocket, and he did not succeed in
\ getting it out until ne was down in the
street, and then he fred three shots at
his antagonist as he fed, but 1t is not
thought any of them took effect. Those
who were in the house say that Yen
only fired twice, and that he shot as
Yeck tumbled down the etairs. This is
borne out by the range of the
bullet which entered at the upper part
of the right arm, ranged through the
| chest, fracturing the fifth rib and pass
ing through the middle lobe of the right
lung, thence through the liver, and was
found in the vicinity oil the left kidney.
The ball was Al calihre, conical.
Yeck's remains will be brought to this
city for interment. He and Yen be-
longed to the same society, which, ac-
cording to Chinese customs, made them
cousins, and in this respect both were
related to Quong All Moon.
Deputy Sheriff Wrsy secured the coun-
try'all about Santa Monica, and Marshal
Barrello is also on the alert for Yen.
They were unable to locate the fugitive,
but it is thought by Wray that he is in
hiding close about Santa Monica, and
the search will be renewed today.
According to the most reliable Chi
nese authority obtainable, this is the
fourth murder which Qusng All Yen has
to his credit. He is regarded by the
arch highhinders themselves as oae of
the most desperate among their num-
Der, and 80 stepped in crime that he de-
lights in assassination. A desperate
gambler whose luck has failed him, he
is more than willing to rob and murder
for living, and stands ready for con-
sideration to be hired to commit the
most heinous crime in the catalogue of
crimes.
The first murder that Yen is credited
with was that of white man in Eureka,
Humboldt county, about IL or IA years
ago. It was secret murder, and
though suspected of it, he escaped with
out punishment.
His next supposed victim was fellow
Chinaman, whom he stabbed to death
in San Francisco about seven years ago.
His fellow highbinders came to his re-
lief then just as they are sheltering him
now and he went free.
About year after that he stabbed
another Chinamsn, what was considered
deadly thrust In the stomach, but the
victim is now living in Los Angeles with
q seton in has stomach and the prolonga-
ton of his life is regarded as little less
than miracle of science by the physi-
clans.
There are those who will freshly re-
member how Los Angeles was startled
by the mysterious murder OF the Peru
Wan princess about four years ago, who
had cast her dissolute lot among the
loathsome dives of Chinatown. She
had become troublesome to some OF the
highbinders, and it WAS resolved that
she should DO removed" One night
she was ehot in cold blood, and it is still
mystery to the police authorities who
| fred the shot that ended her miserable
existence. The murder OF the "princesB,
however, is no secret among the high
binders. if prominent members OF that
diabolical organization are to be
believed. They cay that time and again
Quong All Yen, whef drinking, and ne