St. Paul daily globe., 1894-06-18
LuBBERY WANG CHANG.
A FAT cHiN&MAH HAS MURDER IN
HIS HEART.
-sLAsHEs POOR LOUIS LEVY.

With a Huge Butcher Knife the
Laundryman Proceeds to
Carve the Hebrew-Wanted to
Be Revenged Story of Two
Girls Who We're Found in the
Rear Of the Laundry.
= Wang Chang is fat and lubbery, In
fact he is a Mongolian monstrosity.
whose pig-tail is long and greasy and
whose flat nose is adorned at the tip
with tuft of hair which undulates
gently in the wind. He keeps laundry,
does this Wang Chang. and it is said by
the police officials that he also keeps a
"hop'' outfit. in which he allows the
| degraded Americans and erotic CeleS-
~tialS to operate at so much "Smoke."
The Wang Chang laundry is at l05
First avenue south. The name of
Hop Lee" adorns the board over the
door and bedecks the window. but the
owner of the name has van
ished. He sold out to Wang
Chang and then betook himself to Pekin,
where he lives on rice and rats. 1t
is said that Hop Lee, i'll order to
bear out the significance of his name,
also conducted an opium den. and II so,
he bequeathed his custom to Wang
|, Chang. for the latter. from all reports
has been doing rushing business of
late. Carriages have stopped at his
door at odd times of the night. and the
,far rnd nj ~
were by no means i'll quest of laundered
clothes.
Wang Chang was an inmate of cell
at the central police station yesterday
and last night. This morning he will
be arralgned in the police court on the
charge of assault with intent to kill. He
was arrested by Patrolman jim Nowack,
and it all came about in this way:
Several days agoInspectors Lawrence
and Hoy noticed two young girls. whose
parents are respectable and live on the
| East side, enter the laundry. They did not
! come out again, so the detectives went
into tine place. and found them neatly
esconced behind a pair of dirty cur
tains in the rear of the foul-smelling
laundry. Wang Chang was frightened
when he saw the officers, and swore by
| the left leg of CnnfuciuS that he had
| done nothing wrong to the girls. and
| that they merely came i'll to see him
| about doing some washing for their
mothers. The inspectors. of course, did
not believe the Chinaman, and ordered
| the girls to leave at once, adding that if
| they were ever caught there again they
would be locked up.
From the Wang Chang palace the in
| spectors Wet to the secondhand store
at 100 First avenue south. two doors
below the laundry. The place is kept
by Mike Levy, a Hebrew gentleman,
and his brother-in.law, Louis Levy. The
| cunnln Chinaman, watching from his
door, saw the inspectors stop at Levy's
store, and immediately made up his
mind that the Hebrews were the ones
| who were responsible for the raid on
| his place. He was certain that they had
informed the police that the girls were
| in bis place, and swore he would he
revenged. When the coast was clear
and the inspectors had taken their de-
parture he craned his neck out of his
door and yelling to Louis Levy,
who was standing i'll front OF the Three
| Ball establishment, said he would kill
| him the very first time he got a chance.
|
Louis sauntered past his place and
when he was opposite the door Wang
| Chang rushed out with a piece OF lead
pipe and attacked him. The Hebrew
| managed to obtain possession of the
weapon and keep himself from bel Eg
| injured. Then the Chinaman. swearing
like pirate. rushed back into the laGn
dry and secured a huge butcher knife.
| Foolish Louis was still in front OF the
| laundry. He was boaSting of how he
| had vanGuished the Celestial, when
! Wang Chang pounced upon him with a
! knife. He made one vicious lunge aud
caught Levy over the left eye, cutting a
| fe rful cash which reached clear to the
ear. Fortunately. there happened along
| at that juncture a man who was reellng
and weaving about the walk in an
ecstasy of intoXication. He had enough
| sense left, however, to take in the situ-
| alton and act accordingly. He seized
| the Inaddened Chinalnan about the neck
and shook the knife loose from his
| hand.
| Wang Chang took to his heels and
| trembling LOuis'Savior followed. He
caught him just as he entered his laun-
| dry, and choked him INTO submission,
and then Patrolman Nowack hove in
| sight and took charge of the prisoner.
!
however. Wang Chang refused to go
to the station, so the policeman was
obliged to half carry and half drag him
all the way. Jailer Bradley had no easy
time in searching aim, for he fought
| like tiger. He was finally induced to
give over what valuables he had about
| him and was locked up in cell.
The wounded Levy in the meantime
bled profusely and every time he
winked his eye the red fluid welled up
like the tide. A physician was sum-
moned and succeeded in staunchlng the
blood and sewing up the wound. Had
they not responded promptly the He
brew would have died from loss of
blood.
The police have been keeping their
weather eye on Wang Chang's place for
some time, and, according to the people
who reside in the vicinity. the two girls
mentioned have been regular visitors at
the lau dry for months back. Other
| girls have also been notl"ed to enter the
| place and remain for period of an
| hour or more al a time. and it is certain