The record-union., 1898-02-01
The DEATH OF LOOK All WON.
INQUEST ON THE HIGHBINDER
VICTIMS REMAINS.
The Coroner's Jury Accuses Sam
All Coon and Lee Coon Duck
of Murder.

Coroner Clark last evening held an
inquest on the remains of Look All
won, who early on the morning of jan
uary list was shot and killed at 9Ui
Fifth street. Shortly after the muir
der Sam All Coon and Lee Coon Duck
were arrested on suspicion of having
done the shooting. They were repre-
sented at the. inquest by Hiram w.
Johnson, While the interests of the peo-
pie We're looked after by City Attorney
De Ligne.
Lum Kow, the first witness called,
testified that Look All Won was, at
the time of his death, about so years
of age and unmarried. He however.
knew nothing Of the shooting.
Police officer r. w. Ash testified that
on the morning of January 21st a Chin
aman named All Nun entered police
headquarters and reported that four or
five men had been killed at Fifth and /
streets. The witness went with his
informant to the locality indicated and
found Look All Won on the floor with
a bullet wound in his back and another
in his wrist.
After taking the wounded man TO
the police station, the witness accom-
cellar under a house on Fourth street,
between l and J, to which place thu
latter said he had followed Sam All
Coon, one of the men who had done the
shooting. The first search showed the
basement to be empty, but on going
back Sam All Coon was found lying
On bed smoking, and he arrested him.
Officer G.. w. Hayes testified to hav-
ing visited late in the DAY the house
where the murder had been committed.
He found four holes in the wall oppo-
site TO the door. Curtains were over
the glass in the door, and the witness
was of the opinion that person on
the inside could not be seen by parties
outside unless there was a light in the
room between the person inside and
those outside.
Deputy Sheriff w H Katzenstein tes-
titled that he had accompanied Officer
Ash to the scene of the shooting and
had asked the wounded man who shot
him. The latter replied, One man.
Afterward, at the police station, coun-
tryman had asked the wounded man.
in Chinese, who shot him, and he had
replied something that sounded like
the names of the men subsequently
arrested. The witness could not re-
member the names of the men who had
not been arrested.
All Mon testified that at the time of
the shooting he was in the room with
Look All Won. y short time before
the murder was committed All Sam
Coon and Lee Coon Duck entered his
place and asked for Look All Won. Mon
replied that he did not know where he
was and they went away. Shortly af-
forwards Look All Won came in and
lit a bunch of firecrackers which he
threw out of the door. He closed the
door and turned around when the
shooting began. The witness said he
was badly frightened and did not see
who fired the shot, but the wounded
man subsequently told him that All
Sam Coon and Lee Coon Duck had shot
him. He did not pretend to know how
All Won knew who shot him.
DR. Reith testified to having held an
autopsy on the murdered man. The
wound in the abdomen, he said, was
necessarily fatal.
All Nun testified that he was walk
ing up street between 2 and 3 o'clock.
and had got to Fifth street when ne
of the door of GOA Fifth street. I'M
mediately afterward he NV Lee Coon
Duck and All Sam Coon before the
door They had pistols in their hands
and commenced shooting through the
door Long All Tin, San Francisco
highlander, kept a lookout, while the
other men did the shooting. The wit
ness was certain that All Sam Coon
and Lee Coon Duck did the shooting
end he so informed the police after he
had first followed All Sam Coon to the
cellar on Fourth street where he was
arrested. He empha sized the state
ment that he was not a friend of the
prisoners.
The jury brought in a verdict that
Look All Won came to his death from
gunshot wound at the hands of Sam All
Coon and Lee Coon Duck.