The morning call., 1894-02-20
A ROBBERS FEAST.
Bold Highbinders Make
a Rich Haul.
Pretty Chinese Girls While Enter
tanning Their Beaux Robbed of
All Their Jewels.

There are four very dolefu, paintedA beauties
in Chinatown and four or five hghbinders in
close hiding in some of the impenetrable fast
neSSeS in that mysterious quarter. A robbery
has been committed in the haunts of the Celes-
tials, and in the barbeT-SbOpS, restaurants and
other places where the Mongollans are wont TO
assemble and chatter about the news of the
day ii is the subject Of most interest in all con.
versatiOus.
In one OF the tall unDumbered and unnamed
buildings fronting on Brenham place, whose in
tricacies ii is impossible 20 describe, the four
unfortunate Chinese girls who are to-day I'M
adorned with jewels reside and receive their
visitors. They are well known among the high
rollers of Chinatown, and have given the silk
clad cudeS OF the quarter number of enter
tainments.
On Saturday night last they sent invitations
10 four OF their friends TO naTtake OF a late sun
per- which was o be fitting conclusion 10 the
weeks pleasure-making. The guests assem-
Died at ] 2 O'Clock. The young women showed
them into "A room pretIiy decorated with many
eoloTed balloons and yellow-hgured flags, where
the least had been prepared. There were Just
eight seats, and itswas a coy, congenial parry,
ana Wlthal very merry one. They did "A good
deal OF talking. great deal of laughing, but
very little eating, foE four robust ana very bad
Chinese had prepared coup de main which
was to cut short their pleasure and turn it 10
grief.
just when Wo Sue, who was doing the hon
ors. was about 10 serve some deicately pre-
pared dish, and when the guests had grasped
their chopsiicks, the door was rudely thrown
open and The four ugly. MISUNDERSTANDING
men rushed In with pistols drawn and bud
geOns ready.
They ordered those dudes to arise from the
table and retire TO Il far corner of The room
Then they helped themselves to the edibIes
and made the trembling entertainers diyest
themselves OF th IL jewels aud spread them on
the table. These they gathered up and secreted
ABOUT their persons, and then they vanished
into the night.
Sin Lu, the landlord. had in some wav
learned that highbnderS were IN the room, and
had gone 10 call III the police. When he re-
turned the highbinders had disappeared, and
neither the police nor the girls have laid ewes on
hide or hair of them since. Wo Sue said yes
terday that the robbers TOOK 5000 worth of
Jewelry and such other ar icles as they could
readily carry away.
Sing Lu, who lives next door, when asked
what he knew OF the robbery. expressed his en-
tire Indifference TO the whole affair by a shrug
OF the shoulders.
You say" said he in pigeon English. .'that
somebody robbed the girls? Velly good; eyery-
body robs the girls. That's nothing"
But who did IL? Who were the high
binderS?"
There are no hghbinders," he answered
blandly. Chief of Police made all highblnders
60 TO the country now. No highblnders in
Chinatown any more"
Chinatown officers have spent a number of
days trying TO find out who made the raid but
they are as far from their object now as when
they began their investg ton.