The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-03
YONG SINGS KNIFE,
Used It with Probable Deadly
Effect on Charlie Chu.
SURPRISED Him with Pretty Mamie
Maggie, His Alleged wife.
Tragic Event That Excited China
town Early This Morning.

Mamie Nagle. pretty girl Of nineteen,
~as the cause Of a row between two
yo,ng Cinnamon in the tcncment-house
At 1s Doyers street at o'clock this MORN
ing. which may result in the death Of
one Of them.
Mamie, In the parlance of Chinatown,is
tnown as a Chinaman's girl. She &C.
cupies apartments on the top floor Of 16
Doyers street. Until Saturday last Yong
Sing, thirty-four years old, a partner in
the grocery and clothing firm of China
men at the corner of Pell and Doyers
streets, lived with her and passed as her
husband. He introduced her to his
friends as his wife, and she wore Il
heavy band Of gold. which she said was
her wedding ring.
She was Of gay disposition, while he
was surly. reticent and intensely jealous
Of her. Quarrels between them were OF
frequent occurrence. The final one &C.
Cured on Saturday. when Yong Sing
packed up his clothes and left the
house. declaring he would never return.
He did, however. about $50 this morn
room. He heard voices within. and
when she refused to open the door he
broke II down.
mere ne round Cnarlle Gnu, twenty
eight yetrs old. laundryman, who lives
at 2H Willis avenue. When she saw
Yong Sing. Mamie rushed out of the
room screaming. The Cinnamon In
ensued. They overturned or broke a
great part of the furniture in the ROOM
and men fought out into the hallway
and struggled down to the. third floor
landing. each man endeavoripg to draw
a knife
Yong Sing was the first to succeed, and
he stabbed Chu twice in the region E OF
the heart with sharp-pointed Chinese
dirkknife. six inches long.
Meantime Nantes screams had aroused
Chinatown, and the narrow, foul.smell-
early dawn by a crowd Of chattering,
excited Cinnamon. when Policemen Far.
rington. Perkins. Burns AN, and CGyie; OF
the scene. BY that time both Yong
Sing and his victim had disappeared;
harrington found pool OF biS bio d., IN
the hallway on the third a%n hed
where be found the wounded Monaghan
sitting IN corner , Of his rear fe Fe0P bood
eb6ins away The policeman promptly
summoned an ambulance and had him
removed to Chambers Street Hospital.
Meanwhile Policeman Perkins had sue
ceeded in tracing Yong Sing to room
on the second floor of IS Doyers street,
where he found him concealed under a
Yong Is one Of the biggest Cinnamon
in town. and he gave Perkins hard
fight before he finally succeeded In sub;
doins and Handwriting him. He denied
bling. No knife was ound upon him.
but later the dirk was picked up In the
yard of 16 Doyers street, by Chu Ling,
Of I Doyers street, who turned 1t over
Chu Noey. of q Pell street. and Char
lie You, both declared that Yong Sing
was the man who did the cutting: The
dirk was stained with blood clean to the
hit The police DO not not belle 6eeve that the
fact. they say that Mamie Nagle said
that Charlie Chu was not his right
name, but she would not tell what his
known It would ruin his business in the
Before sending Chu to the hospital, Far
rington asked him who had stabbed him.
was robbers. He had plenty of money
on his person. but not cent had been
taken from him.
DR.. Cutler, the ambulance surgeon who
first attended Chu. said his injuries Were
very serious, and that he would ,proba
bly, die. When an Evening World re
porter called at the hospital at 10 A. NJ
the gentlemanly clerk on duty said tina
the house surgeon was at breakfast, anc
that he really did not know Just how
seriously the Chinaman was wounded
nor would he make any attempt to iint
out
Policeman Perkins who had been there
for tive &c set
In court, could not get any better salts
faction. He was told he would have t.
wait until the surgeon was ready to SCI
him.
Justice Grady, at the Tombs Polio,
Court held Yong Sing to await the re
suit Of his victims injuries.