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The morning call., 1893-03-14
SlLKEN PLUMBER.
Why One DressmaIler Is Melau
choiy.

why One DreSSmailer Is Melan-
choIy.
Some thief or pack OF thieves NAV deck
wives or sweethearts in the softest, shining
silk and satins looms may weave if they
want to.
Whole loads Of costly dress stufrs that
would have gone into wedding trousseaps,
dainty low-cut costumes for bright ball
rooms and dreams TO be worn when tea Is
brewed hrve been cHrted off from tbs dress
making establishment of Mrs. Lena Leuen-
berger at 314 Sutter street
There was $4,000 worth of dressmaker's
stock, according 10 the victim of the rob-
berry, and nobody knows where it went
after they left the back door.
The thieves broke into a back door on
Saturday or Sunday night, pilaged the
dressmakiDg establishment and kindly left
some other establishments in the building
untouched.
The building at S14 Suffer street Is n two
story and basement structure, occupied on
the ground floor by Madame Leuen berger.
X. A. Lundstrom's hat mandatory takes
up the basement, and on the upper floor is
situated the plumb bing-shop of David Bush.
On the ground floor Is wide hallway
running straight through the house and
opening on small inclosed back yard. The
back entrance of this hallway consists of an
inside glass-paneled door and outer portal
VI NpSA' Ahl9 OutNl uOul 10 htpL StCuItu
by a hoOk-latch. and the inner one is
fastened by an ordinary lock.
Opening into the hallway are two large
rooms, connected by sliding doors, usually
kept open. One of the apartments has
windows on the street and the other looks
out on the back yard.
The front room is used for tile reception
OF customers and in the rear apartment Is
kept stored valuable stock OF silk and
satin dress goods.
Saturday night the place was locked and
fastened as usual and no one went near il
until yesterday morning, when the scrub
woman entered to clean up, about Z O'Clock.
She was surprised To find both of the rear
hall doors standing wide open.
Mrs. Deuenbuger was immediately notified
and lost no time in communicating with the
police. Detective Anthony was detailed on
the case.
Il cannot state just yet the exact amount
stolen" said Mrs. Leuenberger to n CALL
reporter Yesterday, but from the inventory
taken so far II would appear that over $1,000
worth OF my finest stock has been taken.
THE thieves evidently understood Just
what they were about and carefully dis
eliminated between the different sorts of
goods.
No, do not suspect anybody particu-
larly at present. but it certainly must have
been some one thoroughly acquainted with
the house and Its contents"
The police have SO far no elew to the
robbery.
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HIGHBINDERs MUST Go.
A Vigorous and Aggressive Crusade
Against Chinese HoodIums.

A vigorous and Aggressive Crusade
Against Chinese HoodIums.
Chinatown was in state of siege yester-
day afternoon.
Immediately after the shooting of Box
ami the capture of his murderer Sergeant
Burke set out with small but determined
posse to raid the headquarters of the Flop
Sing Tong.
On the third floor of the brick building at
726h Pacific ayenne the Hop Sing Tong
hghbindsrs had their boss joss and altar set
up in a little back room.
That joss has gone to the joss hereafter
which means the ash barrel or wood pile.
The axes of Sergeant Burke and his man
just strewed ruin and desolation in that
little back room in about the same time it
takes TO write it down.
They hewed right and left and hewed
bravely. albeit the chief joss frowned ana
frowned from his lofty perch on the wall.
Ihen one OF the brave axes split the
frowning, grinning joss from crown to base.
He fell gnominiously, as all Idols must
fail IN the fullness OF time. But this par
ticular idol fell before his time.
His doom came by revuution-the skep-
tical Sergeant Burke being but little lm-
pressed with the slOw-mO Oying evolutionary
theory
But what OF the highbinders who were
found by the posse in this little back room?
Two Of the more notorious were arrested
on general suspicion of being suspects.
The others were clubbed and kicked and
cuffed all the way down the stairs.
They are nursing sore heads and aching
backs now. for the batOns were not welded
with mildness and mercy.
Get out of here, you heather cutthrOat,"
was the general salutation of Sergeant
Burke's men, accompanied by kick and a
cuff and a bang with the club all at once.
Occasionally lthe salutatIon WAS varied
by You blankety. blank, blank highbinder
get out"
There was little or no variation in the
physical treatment of those fortunate enough
to escape arrest.
And when Sergeant Burke and his posse
went Town and out of that little back room
there were no more highblnders n sight and
sad wrecGage within.
There the heather god lay. split in three
pieces helpless and iorlorn. and all the
punk. and tinsel, and red paper and altar,
and para phernalia of orthodox hight binder
ism was tattered and torn and scattered
about in sad aud hopeless confusion.
The morning call., 1893-03-14
"SIT DOWN, SIR"
A Scene Between a Judge
and an Attorney.
A Lively Sequel to the Release of
Chinese Migrants on WORTH
less Bonds.

In connection with the release of several
of the Chinese arrested on Friday night on
bonds which had not been approved By
Chief Crowley and the ChiDese Conscl-
General, as agreed upon on Fridays con-
ference, lively scene ensued in Judge
CampbelPs court yesterday.
Attorney Martin Stevens appeared for
four of the prisoners charged with Yagrancy,
He said they were present and would always
be present when wanted. lie wanted Jury
In each case.
What is the amount of tile bond in each
case?" asked Judge Campbell
Zone hundred and fifty dollars each and
the bondsmen are perfectly good, replied
Attorney Stevens.
Well" said the Judge, "t is too little.
Besides L consider the bonds worthless
Yon ask for jury trial in each case2
YES, your Honor" said Attorney
Stevens, and L want to explain the reason
why. Owing TO the conference held last
Friday between the Police Court Judges,
Chief Crowley and the Chinese Consul,
there Is an impression abroad that the
cases of these men will not be fairly tried
by the Judges and that it was decided 10
convict In all cases"
You are entirely misinformed," said the
Judge, as to what took place at the confer
ence. The merits of the cases were not
mentioned at all, but simply the suficiency
Of the bonds. 1t was thought a wise plan
TO get the approval OF the Chinese Consul;
otherwise the Chief would have to employ
an army of experts"
u am prepared to bring the bondsmen
here, said Attorney Stevens, land satisfy
you that they are good for The amount"
Il have made up my mind" said the
Judge, that the bonds are not good. | will
make them $500 each and they will have TO
be approved by the Chinese Consul"
Il object" said Attorney Stevens hotlv.
Upon what 10 you base your opinion that
these bonds are worthless? They were &C
cepted by Police Court Clerk Gayigan, a
reputable official, and you are finding him
guilty OF malfeasHnce of office"
Il am doing nothing Of the kind" angrlly
retorted the Judge. land | will not listen to
yOnr impudent remarks"
Attorney Stevens temper was up and he
was about TO retort when the Judge struck
the bench n resouRdug wback with his
gavel and sternly said, "Sit down, sirP"
The attorney sat down.
There was moments intense silence, and
then the attorney quietly asked for jury.
VERY well, said tie Judge. LET il be
fixed at the earliest day"
Several others OF the Chinese arres, ed
were brought up for vagrancy ana visiting
house OF bad repute. and the bonds were
fixed a. $500 on each charge
The morning call., 1893-03-14

nut they were equally unsuccessful. the
Nlee.Cnnsui afterward characterizing him
as notorious liar"
The wounded man lay In a pool of blood
IN front of ChUn Fats general store, on
washington street, where he WAS shot down.
A hundred fellow-heathens passed his
PROSTATE form. but they gave no heed to il.
There he lay, bleeding his life away and
waiting for the patrol wagon to come.
No one offered a helping hand; no one
tried to stop the fata red flow
The passing heather regarded the wound
ed man about the same as you or | would q
bag of sand. 1t is annoying. you know. to
find bag of sand blocking your path on the
sidewalk, but really, hardly worth while a
serious thought of a busy man.
So these phlegmatic Chinese passed this
dyiag highbiDder.
At last the patrol wagon came.
An examination at the Receiving Hospital
showed that two of the bullets went clear
through his body. one through the left leg,
one through the left wrist and the fifth
lodged in his hip.
He died in about twenty minutes.
All he could articdIate was belly glood
man"
1t was clear that this belly glood man"
did not have reference to Lii Gin, but was
rather egOtistical.
1t was a dying heathen's estimate of him
self. And no one will now care to say him
nay.
JuuS6u ny HISHOlHutE SIdDuHTuS ne prob
ably was belly Clood man." judged by
other-but he has been judged, once and for
all. lie died in twenty minutes.
There were abundant witnesses to the
shooting, among them 5. a. johnson of
1925 Fourteenth street, Oakland, & packer
for George c. Shreve & Co.
he saw Ii Gin fire the two shots at his
victim after he fell, and he did not lose
sight of him till he was captured and locked
up in the City Prison.
A lad named Duftield picked up one of the
bullets that went through Box All ChuBgs
body.
Chung Qui, who was fatally shot in a
gambliug den last Wednesday morning, be-
longed to the Hop Sing Tongs, and his
murderer was Suey Sing Tong. Now the
Suey Sing Tongs have squared accounts by
yesterdays murder.
Officers Phillips and Haskell will in all
probability receive the reward of $500
offered by the Chinese Consul-General for
the arrest and conviction of any high binder
guilty of murder
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james S. LerlngtoeL and moreover holds the
deed for it, he was paturally an Interested
attendant at the examination.
Dr. Lefingwell was in repentent mood
and was profuse of assurances to General
Barnes that the medium had been deceived
by the spirits and had given him wrong
impression"
"Who is this medium?" asked General
Barnes.
Mrs. Flnnerly. but understand her real
name is LaGd."
''Do you still lay claim to the house?"
"Ok, no." said the devOtee of spiritualism
patheticalIy. 81 will make any reparatiuu;
it is all mistake. have been under
wrong impression"
win you give me deed to the house ?"
asked the general, and those present smiled
audbly.
"On. no. 1t Is not necessary to give you
deed. l am sure now th at L don't own the
house"
Didn't you go out there into the back
yard and talk about getting the house
painted? Didn't you cause this slip to be
inserted in the local directory just as it was
being published" ?"
The morning call., 1893-03-14
A Human Brute

Officer W. T. Hooper, whose special duty
it is to aid the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, arrested Jacob AL
earaz on Powell street. near O'Farrell, yes
terdav afternoon. Alcaraz is owner of the
Bulldog" express, and drives around the
city selling tamales. Hooper saw bloody
matter running down the horses sides,
and on taking off a big piece of carpet on
the animals back most horrible sight was
disclosed. All along the poor brute's back
bone was nothing but a mass Of raw, fester-
ing flesh. Hooper had seen some blood
curdiing sights, but 1t was about the worst
he had ever experienced Alcaraz was
locked up in the City Prison, charged with
cruelty to animals, and the suffering brute
was taken to the Santa Clara stables.
The morning call., 1893-03-14

Later in the afternoon Officer Wlthers and
CALL reporter visited the den again.
Half dozen of the more daring oi the
Hop Sing Tongs were found about the
premises.
They were duly kicked, and cuffed, and
dubbed, and told to ''get out' and stay
out"
This was all strictly in accordance with
Chief Crowley's orders.
The highbinders are idlers and loafers,
and most of the local ones are known to
the Chinatown police.
The orders we're to club every highbinder
out OF the neighborhood wherever found.
And this order still holds good and will
be in vogue till the war is over or the high
binders are driven out OF town
Yesterday afternoon wherever a police
man met known high binder on the street,
or in the shops. or any where in Chinatown
there was clubbing match.
Whenever or wherever a highb nder is
met. club him.
That is the order.
1t was carried out vigorously and to the
letter yesterday, and there " iii be no eessa-
tion OF its vigorous fulflIment to-day or TO-
morrow or for many days 10 come.
several OF The bagniOs, known as resorts
for the hiGhbinders, were raided YESTERDAY
afternoon, and great deal OF clubbing was
done therein.
Soon there was a panic In Chinatown
Excited men gathered at the street corners.
NAAJ " nCO at olElll Ol an dDDfUaGlIQE
liceman, and the various highblnder head
quarters visited later In the afternoon were
found vacant and deserted before the off,
GERS could reach them.
Before dark good many highbInders had
come to the conclusion that the climate of
Chinatown was little too torrid for their
sluggish blood.
SO they packed up and lii out, or lit out
without packing up. The last Is more gen.
orally true, since highbinders are not
troubled as rule with more personal
property than can be readily carried in
their hip pockets. or wherever the heather
does carry his weapons.
If this aggressive policy is kept up by the
police long enough-asd Chief Crowley
says it will belt is quite likely that a
considerable exodus Of highbinders may
take place in the very near future.
Yesterday afternoon the Chinese Consul,
Chief Crowley and Sergeant Burke held a
lengthy consultation in the Chiefs Office
AT this conference plans were mapped
out for a vigorous anti-highbinder crusade,
which will be commenced at once.
These plans include something more than
the mere clubbing of the highbinders by the
officers. but their exact meaning must OF
be made public for day or two yet, Chief
CrOWlpV
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tue lAuLNClCl.
He will swing for his deed, for he was
Caught red-handed. almost in the very act.
And if his punishment should be very
speedy there is a possibility of his execution
having quieting effect on the ardor of the
rival tongs before the war is over.
But the possibility of his speedy punish
ment is so very slim-there are so many
legal technealities, so many delays OF the
law possible so many Supreme Court ap-
peals, so many chances of the twelfth jury
man being bribed or cTanky-that upon the
whole The police are wise in their day to
place small reliance in the determining
powers OF the judiciary.
They will take vigorous means TO put a
stop 10 this highblnGer war. Hereafter the
hghulnder headquarters will be raided fire.
quenuy and regularly, and Chinatown will
be secured for new headquarters.
Chief Crow ley gave orders yesterday en-
power.ug the Chinatown squad to use their
clubs vigorously on the skulls OF all idleTs
aud hIghblndeFs found near their Old
haunts or c0ngregating about new ones.
Since New Years Chinatown has eyneri-
euced more OF less Of reign of highlander
terror chiefly more within the past two
days.
And now Chief Crowley proposes that the
police shall take hand in the fighting.
The reign of terror is to be continued in
definitely but the police will be the chief
parIicipatOrs In most of the shooting
serapes that may possibly follow the inaug-
urauon Of Chief CrOwley's aggressive meas
ures
When you hear the guns pop in Chinatown
hereafter sou may pretty safely bet that a
least one party to the shooting is a member
OF Sergeant Burke's squad.
He viii probably he popping merrily away
at some tieeting hghbinder who has refused
TO stand still and be caught on suspicion.
Il was another cold-bloOded, deliberate
murder that occurred yesterday in broad
daylight, within q hundred feet of the
Nayerly place police station.
1t lacked just fifteen minutes to high noon
when one highbinder walked up to another
Lghbinder who stood summing himself on
the north side Of Washington street, In
front of the store at sos
The man who was doing the summing was
Box An Chung, one of the out-of-tOwn
highbnders who have been imported for
the purposes Of assassination, because their
faces are IN familiar to the local police.
II Gin as the second hjghbiuder. AS a
weil-En0wn and influential member Of the
Hop Sing Tong, a sort of sub joss or high
priest Of that order Of thugs he ought O
have been in prison on the bare suspicion
ot having evil thoughts concealed about
him.
However, he is in prison now. and the
The morning call., 1893-03-14

heather he killed would probably have
killed him or some other heather cut
throat before long had not the high muckee
Joss willed otherwise-but this leads to d.
gression.
Box, all unconscious OF the cold aud
hungry slab at the Morgue awaiting his
carcass was summing himself and probably
planning the assassination Of some rival
highblnder.
Comes now Ii Gin, a revolver in one
hand under his blouse, and the firm eonyic.
tion in his mind that any one of the score
CT more OF open dOOTways and allPy-ways
in the immediate vicinity would afford him
ample shelter after the deed was dane and
immunity from capture by the belief.
Ii approaches Box.
They meet.
There is a quick movement of LIS right
hand, then there are I've loud bangs.
At the third bang Box, the victim, falls
already mortally wounded, and the TWO
succeeding shots are fred into his PROSTATE
body
The murderer. still clutching his weapon,
fled.
He ran east on Washington street to
Dupont. then north. Before he reached
jackson street, or friendly open door. he
was a prisoner.
Tim O'Neill. a Chinatown guide, was
sitting on box in front of the store at the
northeast corner of Dupont and Washing
ton streets when he heard the shots and i'm
Ittulditl1 dlAtIhdIu saw tue lluTutIeI Iuu-
ming down the street with the revolver in
his hand.
O'Neill rushed across Dupont street,
made grab at the fleeing highblndsr, and
missed him. Fortunately the miss bad the
effect OF making Ii Gin take to the middle
Of the street, where be found friendly open
doors still fewer.
Then Patrolmen Phillips and Haskell,
who were at the corner of Dupont and
Jackson streets when the shots were fired,
ran along Dupont toward Washington, and
the murderer, now thoroughly confused,
was foolish enough 10 run squarely into
Phillips Outstretched arms.
This was not exactly the refuge Ii was
looking for, and he struggled and kicked and
tried TO bite and break loose in ali sorts Of
ways.
But a second later came Haskell, and
with him pair Of steel handouts. The
latter were found to ft ii Gins slender
wrists TO nicely. Then Ii stopped kick
ing ard knew the zig was up," or whatever
the heather Vernaeuiar Is for being eInched.
When ONeill made his futile grab at Ii
Gin the murderer threw away his shooting
iron.
This was wise move, but useless, be-
cause too late. The revolver should have
been thrown away full hour before
A bright Mission lad, who saw ii Gin
cast aside his smoking weapon, picked it
up at once ana gave II to the arresting
officer. 1t proved TO be a navy revolver.
IL calIber, and had five empty chambers.
At the time Of the shooting and immedi-
ately thereafter Washington and Dupont
4 streets were crowded with Chinese, who
scattered like frightened geese at the FIVE
bangs and the succeeding quick WORK OF the
officers
At the City Prison the captive hiRhbinder
gave his name as Ii Gin. Although caught
red-handed, he denied any knowledge of
the shooting. and did not know the name Of
the man he shot He said he was lauudry-
man and belonged TO the MIN Yung Com
pany.
The Chinese Consul General and Vice
Consul visited him in his cell In the after
noon and spent over an hour endeavoring to
The morning call., 1893-03-14
A SURLY BEAST.
He Beat His Wife in a Horrible Mar
ner

i1S DCdL Ills VINE III TIOETfDie Man.
ner.
Thomas DClan. who claimed to be clerk,
was arrested by Officers Davis and VII,
liams on Fourth street last night, and with
the aid of two pairs of handouts and the
pairol-wagon, he was taken to tie Southern
police station, where he was charged with
battery and having lottery tickets in his
possession.
Dolan came home drunk and srrly in the
evening. and sOmething his wife said dis
pleased him. He had her down on the floor
pummeling her face. when the officers made
their appearance and put stop 20 the pro-
eeecings. When his wife appeared at the
station to place charge against him her
face was sight to behold.
Two swollen eyes, one of which was
closed, and her face and clothes covered
with blood, told the story of what she had
gone through. She is the mother of three
young children, and she said that she had
received beatings frequently before, but she
did not like to disgrace her husb band by hay-
ing him arrested.
The morning call., 1893-03-14
THEY CAN POINT THEM OUT.
White Men in Chinatown Who Know
the Hiphhinders

The tragedy In Chinatown yesterday
shows that the police, notwithstanding
their precautions and vigilance. have not
reached the core OF the highbinder PROPOSE
tion, for Chinatown is still In state of ter
ror, and in about the condition requiring
martial law.
a merchant of the city who owns consid-
cradle property in Chinatown and who has
bad dealings with the Chinese for over
twenty years, ana who is in every way
familiar with their habits and manners.
speaking yesterday Of the war of the high
binders, said:
"Do you know what the Chinese Govern
ment does when rival tOugs and high
The morning call., 1893-03-14
FAST ON ROCKS.
Scuttled by Some Hidden
=" Niger Heads.
THE SCHOONER GEM ASHORE.
The Tug Hercules Strikes a Sunken
Rock and Is Beached With
the Schooner.
THE SCHOONER GEM ASHORE.

schooner Gem to run stern to on the bunch
of "nigger heads" just under the lee OF Fort
Point yesterday afternoon.
The Gem was outward bound in command
of her owner, L. Olsen. When off Black
Point the wind died out and the vessel
began to drift lantward.
Her head WAS put about, and for time it
looked as if she would succeed in clearing
the dangerous shoals about Fort Point. By
miscaculation the vessel entered the dam
gerous riff about the point, after which she
could not be managed at all.
A heavy sea drove her upon some of the
numerous small rocks on the point. where
she soon commenced to show signs of
The morning call., 1893-03-14
Lost His Feet.

Lee Sam. Chinese laundryman who re-
Gently arrived in this city from san Jose.
presented piiiable spectacle at the Re-
eeivinG Hospital, where he was patient
last night.
Six weeks ago Sam accdently scalded
both feet severely with hot water and
The morning call., 1893-03-14

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The morning call., 1893-03-14
The Fire Record.

An alarm rung from box 25, at 80 o'clock
yesterday morning, was for a fire in the two
story brick house, 81 Washington alley.
owned by QuOng Gee. and occupied as a
dwelling by Chin Bun. The damage was
estimated a 5000 on the building and $50 on
the contents. The fire was caused by the
boiling over of kettle of fat.