St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-12
HAD STOMACH DEVILS.
I he Chinese Hoodoo Doctor Bored
Holes to Let them Out, Eui

I he Chinese Hoodoo Doctor Bored
Chung Died.
Denver Republican
The circumstances surrounding the
death of Ye Son Chung, which occurred
i'll Sam Kee's laundry, 1706 Blake street,
on Saturday evening, will be inveSti-
gated. Chung had been i'll only two
days before his death tooksplace, and he
had no regular medical attendant.
When his body was stripped yesterday
five stab wounds were found on it.
They appeared to have been made by
some tine-pointed instrument, presum-
ably a chop-Stick. The body at present
lies in the cOroner'S office, and today
the coroner will decide whether to hold
an inquest.
Iee Sou Chung complained of pain in
his stomach. No one paid much atten-
ton to him and no physician was sent
for. Saturday Sam Kee called in DR..
Yee Yeng Wah, Celestial disciple of
ESculapiuS, who has his office on WaZee
street, rear of Seventeenth. DR.. Wah
examined his sick countrynan's pulse,
looked carefully at his tongue and at
the soleS of his feet, as is the custom
among Chinese physicians, inquired if
Chung had any money, and on getting a
negative answer, shook his head graYely
and left.
About 6 o'clock DR.. Wah was again
induced to visit the dying Chung This
time he diagnosed the case without
making very extended examination.
Sam Kee, in pigeon English, said
that the second time the doctor
called he looked into his PATIENTS face,
and. turning to those i'll the laundry,
said: ''He no good; he sure enough
die" Having relieved himself of this
opinion, Dr.. Wah went away.
The ChlDaman got frighted and sent
for Dom Kilo, who is a layman, bnt con-
/sidered good medical authority. Dom
came and examined Yee Son Chung,
and then treated him for some dis
ease which does not appear to have any
translatable name, and is known only 10
Cinnamon.
planned. as best lie could, the form of
treatment. He said that Dom Kio took
a pointed instrument, which ne de-
scrlbed as like big needle. and pune
tured five holes III the sick mans
abdomen. One inciSion he made at the
base of the breast bone. AS near as
could be learned from the attendants,
the amateur doctor pulled the mans
inteStineS through the hold and cut
small pieces out of them with
knife or scissors. He did this III five
different places, and left hole large
enOGgh to push pencil into each place.
Four of the holes were made so as to
mark out perfect diamond On the sur
face of the mans stomach. Some red
matter was rubbed on the wounded
spot. and the operation was evidently
intended as a charm or hOodoo for the
Monaghan devils that were supposed 10
be lodged in Yee Son Chung's stomach
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 thoroughly alarmed Chinaman
sent for DR.. J. l.. Clark. When the
physician arrived the man was dead.
His body was then taken to the cor
Oner'S Office. 1t is possible that the
wounds made in Chung's abdomen may
have caused peritonitiS and brought
about the mans death, or ali artery
might have been pierced with the bod
kin and caused the man to die of inter-
nal hemorrhage.
Dom Klio SAID that Cinnamon always
punch holes in sick mans abdomen
for a certain disease that he said was
not "Melican." His cleareSt attempt
to describe 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
we'll, Dom laughed and said:
''He not sick that way; he got another
sick"
Quong Hing Sing is cousin of zee
Son Chung, and keeps store on WaZee
street. He thought the treatment meted
out to his relative by Dom Klio was all
right, and did not appear much con-
cerned about Chung'S death. He eX-
planned that Cinnamon always punc-
tured the StomachS of those VINO are i'll
in the way Dom Klio did, and nat it
was very good cure for the mysterious
disease. A number of other Chinese
said the same thing, but none of them
could define the disease for which this
remedy was used.