The morning times., 1895-07-19
h0Y III sing LOCKED UP
Fight of the Chinese Faction As
SumeS a New Form
PLOT OF BOLD BLACKMAILERS
Lum Kee Sing and Moy Foon Accused
OF Extorting Money by Threats and
Falsehoods From Fellow Country
man-Police Are Actively Watch
ing the Developments
Ah Sing, the head of the Sam Lee

Moy All Sing, the head OF the Sam Lee
! Cut Rate Laundry Company, who was mys
| terously Shot in the leg on the night OF
! the Fourth or July, was arrested last night
! charged by several other Cinnamon with
threats. The warrant was issued by
| Uuited States Commissioner Samuel c.
Mills and served by Sixth precinct officers.
/ 1t is said that Shing Bing, Moy a Foon,
and Lum Kce Sing are implicated with
All Sing, aud warrants We're also issued
for their arrest, but they have not yet
been served
The case OF Moy F Chew, the young
Chinaman who was accused OF shooting
Ali Sing by Sue Cow aud his supposed
victim, and who was held for action OF
the grand jury by Judge Miller, has been
| Ignored by that body, as stated exclusively
! in The Times several days ago aud as
| the Chinamen who issued the warrants
| were friends OF MOy F Chew's party,
| the legal Ous sIaught on the crowd of alleged
| Celestial backsliders is probably the result
OF Chew's acquittaL
| Yesterday several well known Cinnamon
! appeared before Justice Mills and made the
! affdavitS upon which the warrants were
| issued. These were Yuen Wong Ying Lee
and Ah Yuen. Their affidavits disclose a
startling condition of affairs among local
Chinese
! All Yuen swore that on or about the
middle OF last May Lum Kee Sing, and Moy
| A. FOon called at his laundry and demanded
of him the sum of $40 saying that they
wanted it for the support OF the Hop Sing
| Town Club
PAID THEM THE MONEY
| They threatened him with violence and
! business Interference If he refused lie said
ana he gave them SO for which he got a re-
/ ccpt He had previously learned that
/ both men were disreputable characters and
/ hc feared that they would do him bodily
/ harm if he refused TO comply with their de
nIunus. They then uenauued that ne pay
! them weekly the sum OF 81 for tie MAIN
/ tenance OF this supposed club, OF which he
| had no knowledge, threatening HIM with
/ dire calanIities il he refused.
He further swore that he aftervard made
I an investigation and found that the Hop
Sing Town Club never existed and that
the Cinnamon who composed it Were merely
/ a set OF blaCkmailers and higabinders who
had-tieir quarters at No. lO2 FOur-and-a
/ half street, over the An sam laundry,
where they had a joSShoUse and opium
/ joint. The money these men thus eEtGrted,
/ he said. was applied to their own private
purposes.
/ Yueu Wong swoTe that Moy Foou and An
Sing visited his laundry and demanded
money under a similar preteXt. He refused
/ to comply with their demands. and they
/ both attempted To strike him, and put their
right hands in their pockets as though To
draw q weapon. He still refused and
threatened them with arrest if they did
not leave his place. There We're several
F in = ~ 10 b. aJ-G
/ who can cOrroburate his statement. The
/ two alleged blaCkmaileTS finally left the
laundry without obtaining the money
! II is said that there are several white
I people OF prominence as wellas the laundry
men who can testify against the alleged
( highbnders. aud the case, when fully
| developed, promises to be a very interesting
one. The disclosures OF Chinese plots and
/ Counter-plots which the shooting Of All
/ Sing has developed, has caused the police
/ department TO look at the matter in q very
! serious light, and Inspector HOllinberger
himself has given considerable attention 10
( tine matter. He S said TO have given per-
sonal orders for the arrest of the Chiuamen
/ for whom the warran Us were issued
/ yesterday.
REAPED A HARVEST.
It is claimed that band of fifteen
| or twenty ChinameD who have assembled
in this city from different parts of the
country, from which they were driven by
the authorities. have banded together for
the purpose OF living on their ignorant and
easily duped countrymeu, and that until
recently they have been reapiDg a golden
| harvest.
The matter was finally put in the hands
of attorneys, however, and with Moy F.
/ Chew's help some very damaging evi-
/ denCe was gotten together against this
. crowd, which Chew was about to file
The alleged Highbinders are said TO have
| tumbled to this fact, and put up the job
which resulted in All Sing getting shot,
| either by himself or some OF his accom-
plices, and Moy F Chew being accused
and arrested for the crime
Chew's friends, however, Immediately
suspected the true state OF affairs, and
from the non-actiUn OF the grand jury
in the case it would appear that their
statements have been supported by later
investigation.
All Sing and his accomplices. Shing Bing,
Sue Cow. Moy A. Foon, Lum Kee Sing,
Charley Tong Sing, Won Gett and others,
who compose the supposed Hop Sing Town
Club. declared that the cut in laundry rates
made by the Sam Lee Company was the
cause OF the trouble, and that Moy F. Chew,
representing the union laundrymen, was
hired to kill bin.
The other side now claim. however, that
the laundry question did not enter into it
at ALL and that il was merely a subte rfuge
To throw suspicion on Chew and get him
into trouble.
The case against An Sing will probably be
called in the police court this morning,
and the Chinese claim that there will be a
number Of white witnesses to TESTIFY against
him and his associates.