The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-03
YONG SINGS knife,
Used It with Probable Deadly
Effect on Charlie Ohu.
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
.vas the cause of a row between two
,voune Cinnamon in the tenement house
II l6 Doyers street at 8 o'clock this morn
linz. which may result In the death OF
one of them.
Mamie. in the parlance Of Chinatown is
known as a Chinaman's girl. She oc.
cupies apartments on the top floor Of II
Doyers street. Until Saturday last Yons
Sing, thirtyfour 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 hel
husband. He introduced her to his
friends as his wife. and she wore a
heavy band of gold, which she said was
her wedding ring
She was OF gay disposition, while he
was surly, reticent and intensely Jealous
pf her. Quarrels between them were OF
frequent occurrence. The final one oc.
CURED on Saturday. when Yong Sing
packed up HIS clothes and left the
house, declaring he would never return.
He did, however, about 40 this morn.
ng, but could not get into Mamie
room He heard voices within, and
when she refused to open the door he
broke 1t down.
Fight years old. laundryman. who lives
Yong Sing, Mamie rushed out Of the
room screaming. The Cinnamon in.
stantly clinched and a desperate struggle
Iensued. 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 endeavoring to draw
Yong, Sing was the first to succeed. and
ne stabbed Chu twice in the region OF
the heart with a sharp-pointed Chinese
dirkknife, six inches long.
Meantime Mamie's screams had aroused
Chinatown, and the narrow, foul-smell-
ing little street was thronged in the
s early dsSn by crowd Of ehatterin n
rington. Perkins, Burns and Coyle, OF
the Elizabeth street station, arrived on
the scene. BY that time both Yong
foana naG pool 81 sood
the hallway on the third floor. and then
followed a crimson trail down the stairs
and across the street to Doyers street
the third floor, with his life's blood
ebbing away. The policeman promptly
removed to Chambers Street Hospital.
Meanwhile Policeman Perkins had sue
ceeded in tracing Yong Sing to a room
on the second floor Of 1S Doyers street.
pile of old mating and rags.
Yong is one of the biggest Cinnamon
in town. and he gave Perkins q hard
asnx o sna ns @ #. q ss
ling. No knife was found upon him,
but later the dirk was picked up In the
u Sata 6 % D street. who turned 1t over
Chu Noey, of q Pei. street. and Char
lie You. both declared that lyons Yong Sin! nss
dirk was stained with blood clean to the
hit. The police do not believe that the
wounded man gave his right name. In
nat nat e chsrlie chu 1' was no. Els rish'
name, but she would not tell what his
real name was. saying that II It became
known 1t would ruin his business in the
Before sending chu to the hospital. Far
rington asked him who had stabbed him.
He said he did not know, but thought 1t
was robbers. He had plenty Of money
taken from him.
Dr. Cutler, the ambulance surgeon who
first attended Chu, said his injuries were
bly, die. Wien 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, and
that he really did not know Just how
seriously the Chinaman was wounded
nor would he make any attempt to find
out.
Policeman Perkins. who had been there
for two hours trying to get a certificate
as to the mans condition for production
In court, could not get any better salts
faction. He was told he would have to
walt until the surgeon was ready to see
him.
Justice Grady, at the Tombs Police
Court, held Yong Sing to await the re-
suit Of his victims injuries.