The evening world., 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 Maggie, a pretty girl of nineteen
was the cause of a row between two
Young Cinnamon in the tenement-house
at 16 Doyers street at 5 O'Clock this morn.
ing, which may result in the death OF
one of them.
Mamie, in the parlance of Chinatown, ID
known as a Chinaman's girl She oc-
cupies apartments on the top floor Of IL
Doycrs street Until Saturday last Yong
. Sing, thirty-four years old. partner in
70 the grocery and clothing firm of China
"a men at the corner of Pell and Doyers
~ Streets, lived with her and passed as her
70 husband He introduced her to his
friends as his wife, and she wore a
y heavy band of gold, which she said was
Either 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 oc-
I, Cured on Saturday, when Yong Sing
In packed up his clothes and left the
Pbhouse. declaring he would never return
He did. however about 4.3O this MORN
ping, but could not get into Mamie =
troom. He heard voices within, and
S,when she refused to open the door he
broke it down.
There he found Charlie Chu. twenty
eight years old, a laundryman, who lives
at 22I Willis avenue. When she saw
Yong Sing Mamie rushed out of the
D stantly clinched and desperate struggle
:, 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 endeavorlng to draw
d knife
B., Yong, Sing was the first to succeed. and
the heart with u sharp-pointed Chinese
dirkknife, six inches long.
Meantime Nantes screams had aroused
Chinatown, and the narrow, foul-smell-
early dawn by crowd of chattering,
excited Cinnamon. when Policemen, Far:
rington, Perkins, Burns and Coyle, OF
the scene. BY that time both Yong
Sing and his victim had disappeared; :,
Harrington found a pool of blood In
followed crimson trail down the stairs
and across the street to 9 Doyers street.
where he found the wounded Mongolian
the thr d oo Stne With his 'ei lies s0 bo S
summoned an ambulance and had him
removed to Chambers Street Hospital
ceeded in tracing Yong Sing to a room
on the second floor of IS Doyers street,
where he found him concealed under
Yong is one Of the biggest Cinnamon
in town. and he gave Perkins hard
fight before. he finally succeeded in sub;
positively that he had done the stab
bing. No knife was found upon him,
but later. the dirk was picked up In the
yard of le Doyers street by Gnu Ling.
to the police.
chu Noey, of 81 Pell street. and Char
lie You, both declared that Yong Sing
was the man wno did the cutting. The
dirk was stained with blood clean to the
hit. The police do not believe that the
wounded man gave his right name. In
fact, they say that Mamie Nsgle said
name. but she would not tel! what his
real name was. saying that II 1t became
known it would ruin his business in the
Before sending chu to the. hospital, Far
rilngton, asked him who had stabbed him:
He said ne did not know, but thought it
on his person, but not cent had been
taken from him.
DR.. Cutter, the ambulance surgeon who
very serious, and that he would proba-
bly, die. When an Evening World" re-
porter called at the hospital at 10 A. NJ.
tie gentlemanly clerk on duty said that
the house surgeon was at breakfast and
that he really did not know Just how
seriously the Chinaman was wounded {:
nor would he make any attempt to find
, out.
IL, Policeman Perkins. who had been there
a pr two hours trying to get a certificate
Tes to the mans condition for production
ror court, could not get any better salts
nan cIoll, ne was tolu ne wouih nave 10
pst AT until the surgeon WIS leauy 10 see
ia n.
Justice Grady. at the Tombs Police
curt held Yong Sing to await the re-
of hi9 victims Injuries.
Left 5000. 600 tn His Niece.