The morning call., 1894-05-15
QUEE SINGS FATE
Another Chinese Slave Is
Murdered.
KILLED BY A HIGHBINDER.
He Fires Through a Wicket at
the Girl.
SHE is SHOT IN THE MOUTH.
The Second Female Murder Within a
Week in Chinatown Attributed
to Highbinders.

Another murder was committed 10 China
town last night The highbinders appear
to be making their war on women this
time, for this is the second woman shot
fatally within week. In neither case was
the murderer caught.
Last nights tragedy occurred about
o'clock. at 1107 Dupont street, near the
corner of Pacific. The shooting took place
in the upper story. in the rooms occupied
as disreputable house, run by Wong All
Cow. A few minutes before O'clock a
Chinese highb binder walked up the stairs,
stopped at the wicket at the head of the
stairs, drew a pistol from his blouse and
fired one shot.
TEere were two Chinese slave girls sit
ting near the wicket. The bullet glanced
by one, ana struck the other, Quee Sing.
full in the mouth, passing through the base
of the brain.
A minute later officers were on the
scene, but there was no trace OF the nigh
binder. He had quietly walked down the
steps. joined the crowd of excited and glb-
bering Chinese, and his identity became
as the drop of water that minges with the
mass. Officers Josephs and Durkin hap
pened to be about half block away on
Dupont street and, hearing the shot.
rushed to the place whence the sound pro-
ceeded.
They saw no trace of the murderer, but
found the Wong All Cow house in state
ing from room to room shrieking at the
top of their voices. while thrOng of Chi
nese men blocked the entrances.
Poor Quee Slug lay weltering in her own
blood upon the floor. Her mouth was
wide open, and the blood gushed from the
gaping wound.
She was burriedly placed on cot and
conveyed to the Receiving Hospital, but
when the patrol wagon reached that place
life was extinct. Quee Sing never spoke
after receiving the fatal wound in the
mouth.
When the officers. headed by Sergeant
Robinson, began to investigate the tragedy
they found little or no clew to proceed
upon. None of the women of the house
could tell who the mysterious assailant
was. The companion of the murd cred
girl said that she was blinded by the fash
OF the pistol and could not distinguish the
features of the murderer.
Wong All Cow and his numerous tribe
OF Chinese satellites had not the slightest
suspicion as to who had fired the shot
which robbed Quee Sing of her life. the
only thing she had to lose.
The officers made little or no progress in
getting OH the track of the high binder who
shot to kill. Ten minutes after the shoot
ing everybody in Chinatown knew of it,
and coming as it did on the heels of the
similar murder some days ago, 1t
caused considerable excitement. Ser
geant Robinson said that trouble
had been expected among the
highbnders for the reason that they have
been holding musical jinks during the en-
tire week, their celebrations lasting till the
early hours OF the m0rRing.
When the highbinders take TO music
they follow with their pistols or knives in
some desperate or revengeful enterprise.
Such has been their history in Chinatown.
Some OF those familiar with Chinatown
men and manners ascribed last nights
murder to the proverbal desire of the Chi
nese to carry out the law of retaliation.
The woman murdered last week, Choy
Gum, belonged to one family, while Quee
Sing, shot last night, owed her birth and
allegiance to different family. The pre-
sumption is that the first highbinder be-
longed to Quee Sings family and her
death was decided on as the proper atone
ment.
The verifcation of this theory would re-
Quire the capture of the two murderers,
but this is something not within the hori-
zon of the vision Of the most ambitious
member OF the Chinatown squad.