The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-13
LIVING With CHU FOON
Oakland Avenue Chinaman Made
a Correspondent in a
Divorce Suit.

A Hoboken Chinaman, Yuet Lee, who
conducts a gambling house at No. % Mott
street, New York, is about to sue for divorce
Louise Shredder, and who at one time lived
at No. 210 Park avenue, Hoboken. In his
bill of complaint Yuet Lee names a com
patriot named Chu Foon, a laundryman at
No. 155 Oakland avenue, Jersey City
Heights, as correspondent. Mrs. Lee is at
present living with Foon, although she re-
flutes the allegations of her husband that she
has had any improper intimacy with Foon.
Louise is an attractive girl of but seventeen
years, and has a bright eyed baby named
Sadie, who was born on April Is, 1898. Mrs.
Lee is proud of the little baby and says that
Yuet Lee is the pap
Yuet lived in Hoboken until a short while
ago, and in that city conducted a laundry.
Louise Shredder, in 1891, met the Chinaman
through a friend of hers, who was married
to another Chinaman. Louise's parents were
poor at that time, and when the girl became
fifteen years old they said she should have
to assist in providing funds for the family's
subsistence. She was willing, but could not
find readily a place to work. Louise's girl
friend was an Italian damsel, who ironed in
her husbands laundry on Willow avenue.
She induced Louise to work in the laundry.
WANTED TO BE
Louise one day confidentially told her
Italian friend that she was anxious to get
married. She said she thought if she did
that She. would not AVE to work
hard any more. The Italian lady agreed
with her and said she knew of a real nice
Chinaman, who, if Louise got him, would
provide her with a luxurious home, and
plenty of spot cash at hand. She mentioned
Yuet Lee.
0Why. l know him." CALCULATED Louise,
.'he goes to a Sunday school l used to
go to-"
of a~fiuence and plenty living with the
Chinaman. TIL Italian laundress said that
it might be a hare job to get the Chinaman,
but she thought if Louise was persistent
enough she could capture his heart and
riches. The Italian woman was Mrs. Foy
Sing. After a while Louise got over her
wild ideas of marrying a Chinaman with
millions, and said she guessed she'd not
marry him. But Mrs. Sing was anxious
that Louise should become Lees wife, and
determined that it should be SO. This was
in November, 1891. On December u Mrs.
Sing said she was about to move her
laundry to No. 10 Pell street, New York, and
persuaded Louise to go with her.
Then, when they had gotten her to New
York, Louise alleges, they drugged her. and
she saws she cannot remember marrying the
! Chinaman, although it was claimed by Mr..
and Mrs. Sing and Yuet Lee that she lid.
She was convinced, after a while, that she
did marry the Chinaman, and went to live
with him at No - Pell street, New York.
The promised luxury and leisure did not ma
terialize. Lee allowed her twenty-five cents
a day to purchase things the Chinaman
liked to eat, and she had to
eat in conformity with his ideas of culinary
preparations. She says he beat her when
rice was overdone, or the chow chop sui, or
chi dou and tea did not convey the proper
relish to her husband.
NOW LIVING ON THE HEIGHTS.
The home was not a felicitous one, and
Chu Foon, a friend of Lees, extended sym
pathy to, the wife. She left New York with
Foon, Lee says but she claims she went to
her mothers home, at No. 2l0 Park avenue
Hoboken. Afterwards she went to Chu
Foon's laundry on the Heights, but
she AYERS, she went only to do ironing for
him. Yesterday she was found in the rooms
above the laundry with her baby in her
arms. She was indignant when THE NEWS
reporter asked if Lees charges Of intimacy
with Chu are substantial, and she denied
them. Foon, too, was angry, but a China
man in the place said:-"Foon no ikee Lee
blizness. No ikee. Go Hobloken now,
gletee mother glal. Me so too. Me ikee
ANGLICAN glai.p
The case win be tried in the Superior
Court Of New York on Wednesday next.