The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-06-25
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~. r,,bt shoulder, instead OF the left.
7, 60 tho use OF these secret signs ana
words which has given many hmefieans
,ha notion that these secret Societies aio
C,,unese Free Masons. though thefe IL ~
- resemblance between Free Masohs
mo ,i,,,nblnders than there is between
tho Grand Army OF the hepuo"S an" ''''
Malta or the Anarchists
v,hon come wrong Is done by one So
- 20 another and redress has been
rofrsed or when n woman mas peen stoieh
-. . house OF III fame and her kiu-
a,ors have either refused 10 restore
80 or nav her redemption money ana
r. damages claimed: or when one So
80, ga its Matchmaking raids, poaches
80 onothers preserves and collects
,nonev from a house over which IL mas
40 control. there follows a little war
Tho hostile bands select their soldlers
ana arm them Tor the fray me 1euu
nat ragged in San Francisco CHINATOWN
a few months ago, In which seVera Chi-
80, los, their lives arose from
ii,,arro, over the abduction OF woman
CHINATOWN den owned by one OF
those societies.
U-hen n Is remembered that there are
siv.eon thousand Cinnamon In san iran
aieco and only about two thousand emma
yemen. that three-fourths are fahen WO-
,,ep. that the price OF CnlnaWoiilai
averages about $500. and that the Ia"
sorbids the importation OF Chinese Noiu',,
avon of the virtuous class 20 the United
CO n can easily be understood how
toa1opeies duarrels and bloodshed take
y1ace I'm ouarrels where the bachelors are
20 numerous and the females so Few ana
~ such commercial value. Wnen teuu
breaks out between two societies as oc-
CURED lately between the SUI sing lohs
and the sui On Tong. II means war TO the
death. The one swears 10 eA'ei ilii,i"1o az
~ otber II matters not when or where
a zoe appears, on the street VI j" 80,
stora ot night or in the day time Dang
- ~ etv.ebooters. reckless Of the dan
p ~ nossersbv. As soon as the victim
Sous the weapon is thrown away, the
.o,,rdoror dives down some alley ana ~
COON lost 10 sight in the thickly croWae'
rool,erv The police have station III
tbo beart Of Chinatown. In minute M
co. tho fret fusilade they are on the fpol'
hut not n trace Of the ASSASSIN can Dc
found A crowd Of bewildered people
Gather round but give no information
If any one should dare 90 give llioi
tion to the police he would be iharhsu
ont for violence. But the opposts SiN
knows who the assassin Is, anu mo
cot him on the list. He may hlde a"Hs
FOR months. but ne is not foFEoe'eu'
Some dav he comes into The da!hghr'
suddenly a voley that sounds IKE lfe-
crackers startles the whole street Wheh
,he smoke clears away his mangied pody
is found and lifted into the ambulance
Tho Hjgbbinder is determined TO take no
chances and waste no money IL oan
FRANCISCO courts. He has his own notion
~ california judges and turies ana per
eists I'm believing that courts are lax
and yerdicts given 10 the side that has
the longest purse. The notorious assas-
Gin Lee Chuck. whose photograph IS
above. murdered Yin Yuen at midday
on the public street In San Francisco
about three years ago. He was caught
d-handed. There was no doubt what
ever Of his guilt. 1t was coid-blooded
crime without a shadow Of excuse. Yet
Jury after jury disagreed. Documents
were captured by the grand jury showing
wholesale bribery; $4,000 had been con-
tributed to save his neck, and the money
was spent with the result that three trials
were had before he was convicted. He
was sentenced 10 fifty years in the state
prison. But where is Lee Chuck today