Evening star., 1897-01-04
DISTRUSTED THE DOCTORS
Sam Lung Refuses 70 60 to the Hos-
pitai
BADLY Hurt by Some Unkn0wn Man
His Skull Fraetured-LoOking
for His Assailant.

This evening about the time the sun goes
down Sam Lung will leave his little laundry
at GIL I'd street northwest and go to the
~ street joss house. and there make peace
with the divinity he worships Perhaps he
will also call upon the celestial doctor in
chinatown" and get something to soothe
his troubled head. An unknown colored
man is responsible for the condition of his
head, and the police wanted the laundry
man to go to the Emergency Hospital for
treatment. but Sam refused to go. for ne
sail he would let no Mclean man treat
him. When the police called at Sans
clothes-washing establishment about nooa
today they found Sam very much excited
over his rough treatment. An iron pipe had
been used on his head and he was gradually
weakening from loss of blood. The crimson
fluid was fairly streaming from the wound.
and the floor of the laundry appeared as If
it had been given a coat of paint.
Holding up three fingers. the ChinamaT
managed to inform the police of the num-
her of colored men who had been in his
place. He also succeeded in making the
police understand that one of them was a
wagon driver. But he could not tell tho
cause of the trouble. and the police imag-
ined it resulted from trouble about some
laundry. A telephone message brought the
ambulance to the front door, and then the
sn all crowd already assembled began to in
crease. One after another the drivers OF
vehicles stopped until the whole square
was obstrucfed.
While the big crowd was on the outside
TIE mar In charge OF the ambulance was
inside vainly endeavoring to persuade Sam
Lung that visit of an hour to the hospital
would put him in condition to resume bust
ness.
A shake Of the hand greeted the driver
and policeman every time they suggested
hospital. and finally the wounded celestial
asked his unlimited guests to depart. All
ha ractY old
papers to wipe the blood from his face.
while a bandage of the same material ccv-
cred the ugly wound in his head.
After searching his trunk and every box
and drawer In the laundry Sam finally dis
covered in the money drawer what looked
like some kind of dried wood, and when
he had gotten a piece of this medicine in
his mouth he seemed happy.
This is not the first time Sam has expe-
rienced such a thing" remarked a Eolice-
man. Some months ago a colorsd man
assaulted him. but he could not identify
the man. And Sans no easy man to
tackle. / had occasion to arrest him once,
snd before 1 could get him in the station
When the ambulance left the nelghbor-
hood and the police departed the street
was soon made passable again. and Sam,
although blood-stained and wounded, re-
sumed his place at the ironing table. con-
tinuing the use Of the scraps Of news
paper.
ter. that the colored man who committed
the assault had called at the laundry and
pretended he had some collars and cuffs in
the laundry. but had lost his ticket. Sam
Lung denied that his customer even had
any linen in wash, whereupon the colored
man became noisy and profane and used
the piece of gas pipe on Sans head. The
Chinaman fell to the floor and seemed dazed
when pedestrians called to assist him.
Badly Hurt.
Two hours later the Chinaman became
frightened and consented to go to the
Emergency Hospital. Then it was found
that he was suffering from a deep. depress-
ed fracture of the skull, the worst injury
of similar character that ever came to
the notice of the house staff. He persist
emily refused treatment however. and in
sisted on returning to his laundry. fearing
that II would be robbed during his alb
SERGE by some other Chinaman. Tic sur
geons did all in their power to induce the
man to remain at the hospital. as they
considered the operation of trephining ab-
solutely necessary to save life.