The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-08-19
HAD SToNN4cfF DEVILS,
Chinese Hoodoo' Bored Ho1ey to Let
Them Out, But Ehunr Died.

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Chinese Hooded Borsai Hoaey to Let;
! Them Out, But Ghunr Died.
The circumstances sarr ound ing the
death of Ye Son Chung, which oc1
Cured in Sam KEGS laundry, 1905
Blake street, lately, will be- in.
vestigated, says the Denver Repub li-
can Chung had been i'll snly two
days before his death took place and
be had no regular medical attendant.
when his body was stripped
five. stab. wounds were, = found @on,
1t: They appeared to have been
made by some fine, pointed instru-
ment, presumably a chop-stick:. =,
Yee Son Chung complained Of pain:
in; his stomach. No one paid much.
attention to him and no physician
was sent for: saturday Sam Kee
called. in DR.. zee Yeng Wah,. q
| Celestial disciple of Esculapius, who
has his Office On Wazee street, ,reax
OF Seventeenth. DR. Wah examined;
| MS sick countryman's pulse, looked
carefully at his tongue and at the:
soles' of, his, feet, as is the customs
among Chinese: physicians, inquired
II Chung had any money, and on,
| getting a,negative answer, shook his
head gravely and Left
Aboutt6 O'Clock DR.. Wah was again
Induced to- visit the dying Chung.
This time: he: diagnosed the case
without making avery extended ex-
animation Sam Kee, in pigeon
English, said that the second time
| the doctor called he looked into his
patients face, and. turning to those
in the laundry, said: s'He no good; he
sure enough die" Having relieved
himself of this opinion, DR.. Wah
went away.
The Chinamanl got, Enlightened and
sent for Dom Klio,'. who. is a layman,
but considered" good: lnedical author
lty. Dom came, and examined zee
Son Chung, and them treated him for
some disease which, does not appear
to have any transferable name, and
is known only to Cinnamon.
One of Sam KEGS, attendants ex-
planned, as best he could, the form of
treatment He said that Dom Klio
took pointed instrument, which he
described as like a. big e. needle, and
punctured five holes in the sick
mans abdomen. Once incision he
made at the base of tho breast bone.
AS near as could be learned from the
attendants the amateur aoctor pulled
the mans intestines through the
hole and cut small pieces out of them
with a knife or scissors. He did this
in five different places, and left
hole large enough to push pencil
into each place. Four of the holes
were made SO as to mark. out a per-
feet diamond on the surface of the
mans stomach. Some red matter
was rubbed on the wounded spot, and
the operation was evidently intended
as charm or hoodoo for the Mon
golian devils that we're supposed to
be lodged in Ye Son :Chung's stom-
ach and causing him: the pain he
suffered from.
Instead of growing better after
Dom Klio had hoodooed the evil
spirits, Chung began to- sink rapidly
and died about an hour after the
holes had been punctured in him.
A little before he died the thorough
ly alarmed Cinnamon. sent for DR..
j. L. Clark. When the physician ar
rived the man was dead. His body
was then taken to the coroner's
office. 1t is possible that7the wounds
made in Chung's abdomen may have
| caused peritonitis and brought-abou
the mans death. or an artery might
have been pierced with the bodkin
and caused the man to die of internal
hemorrhage.
Dom Klio said that Cinnamon al
ways punch holes in a sick mans alb
domen for a certain disease that he
said was not c'*Meljcan. =" His clear
est attempt to-, deseribet.the, disease
was that small things, come on
| mans stomach and make, heap sick"
He admitted that he made, the wounds
in Chung's abdomen. When. asked
why Chung did, not get; well, Dom
| laughed and said:
'He ot:slck that way he, got: an
| other sick.:''
Quong Hing Sing is ancousinaof Ye
Son Chung, AND keeps al store on
| Wazee-streat,. He thoughtsthe treat
ment melted. QUIT to his relative by
| Dom Klio was all right aud did not
! appear muothconcerned aboNhChung's
death. He explained that Cinnamon
always punetured the stomachs of
| those. who are i'll in. the way Dom
Klio,d lid. and that it was a. very good
cure for. the mysterious disease. A
number of other Chinese said the
same, thing, but none Of them could
define the disease fon WHICH this he.
roia: ne1nedy was used.
Natural History. Facts.