New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-18
A CHINESE HIGHLANDER.
CHARLEY TONG SING NOW UNDER AR
REST IN NEWARK
ACQUITTED ON A CHARGE OF ROBBERY HE Is
HELD FOR THE NEW YORK PoI.ICE-HIs
EXTRAORDINARY RECORD AS TOLD
COI'NTRYMAN

BY A CoUNTRyMAN
The police OF Newark have in custody Lem Tong
Sing alias Charley Tong Sing, who the New-York
police say, is one OF the most notorious cutthroats
ever known In Chinatown the slums of San Fran
cisco. Acting Captain Young. of the Sixth Pre-
cnct. New-York. has information from Lem Tong
Sings own countrymen living in Mott-st. that the
prisoner Is responsible for four five murders
that have been instgated by the highbnders
ceties In the United States Captain Youngs men
would arrest Sing II he should come within their
jurisdiction. for he IL wanted" by them on charges
OF assault and battery and gambling.
Charley Tong Sing is remarkable man in many
ways When he first appeared in Chinatown early
In the present year, his countrymen OF the clique
opposed TO the Hip Sing Tong Highbinders So
cety, at No. p Chatham Square. promptly became
terror-sricken and some of them asked the protec-
ton of the police Charley Sing is the that he
is best known by. About the fourth week Of his
residence In New-York City he obtained great
deal OF notorety by making applica ton for APP
po!ntment special detective in Chinatown He
said that gambling was going on constantly at
nearly score OF places in Mott. Pe and Doyers SITS.
and that the regular police were not able to sup
press II.
TO support his claim for the specia! detective job.
Charley Sing produced letters from Chief Engineer
Melville of the United States Navy and from the
Judge Acknowledgement which purported to show
that he on the steamship Jeanette and later
on the Thetis in the Arctic regions. lie had two
medals. one presented by Congress to survivors OF
the Jeanette expedition and one presented by the
Navy Depar tment. A about five inches long ex-
tends his left cheek He says he received the
injury while in the Arctic regions The On Long
Tong of No. IA hottest. is another secret society.
Its members say that he received the cut on his
cheek at the hands of Chnaman whom he tried
to Kill in laundry
GUAM Yick Man, a Chinaman who has done good
service to the police OF the precinct. became the
object of attack the part OF the highbinders ana
his death Guam Yick Nam had been In San Fran
cisco when Charley Sing was there. and he gave
Captain Young the whole story OF Charleys career
or crime. GUAM lck Nam says that Charley sing
killed a man and got his papers. and has since that
time passed himself as the original owner or the
papers. Captain Young says that guam ilck Nam
Nam is often called upon TO act as interpreter IN
the courts He ia collector for Charles +. Gan,
wholesale quor-deaer in Broadway, ana MS EN-,
chaIac does Assistant District-Attorney
George Gordon Battle.
Charley Tong Sing has something OF a record IN
Newark Nine ten years ago he and several
confederates robbed, nearly killed and tcd up
countryman For that Tong served term IN
light robbery at the store of Willie Hong In Com,
merce-st, on November 10 Of this year Tong anu
three or four associates attacked Hong and TOOK
SOL from him. Tong and Wing Sing were arrested
friends Offered to repay all the money taken u Willie
Hong would not prosecute and when That oHer was
rejected threats were used.
I'm not afraid Hong SAID. HIN Dau man
Must be locked up.
Tong and Wing Sing were tried in Newark on
Monday. They set up the plea that they had been
arrested for merely demanding their winnings, A
gullible jury believed this yarn and acquitted the
prisoners. Chief OF Police Hopper held Tong sing,
however. In response TO request from captain
Young.