Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-24
THUGS ESCAPED.
A Brutal Assault On Chinaman
at w ebster.
Two Worcester High School Pupils Re-
ported to Be the Perpetrators of the
Outrage and Attempted Robbery.


at 1874 South Main street, in the block
owned by Charles Brantigam, this af-
ternoon.
When the reporter reached the scene
where fracas had occurred the sight
that met his eyes was pitiful. See Yuen
was standing before. his looking-glass,
and between curses in his native Ian
guage, was painfully wiping the blood
off his bruised face and hands, His re-
Gently clean and laundered shirt front
was a sight. 1t was completely covered
with blood and the rest of his costume
was spattered with mud
Between his muttered curses and un-
successful attempts to clean his clothes,
with an occasional glance at a huge
flatiron which he had placed convent
entity within reach, he told the reporter
what he could remember. He said that
he was struck so many times and
dragged through so much mud, that he
could not recollect everything that
happened
About O'Clock, two young fellows,
who, he should judge. We're not more
than 20 years old, came into his place
of business and asked for the loan of
several matches to light their cigarets
with.
At first See Yuen did not understand
them, and the young rascals got angry
over it. One of them, calling out in a
loud voice, said that if he did not get
them some matches at once, they would
put the place on the burn" This re-
mark alarmed the proprietor and he
Immediately ran for the back room to
get some for the daring youths
Probably all arrangements had been
concocted before they entered the laun-
dry, for, just as quick as See Yuen
started for his rear apartments, the
youths crowded around in the rear of
the counter and attempted to open the
money drawer, which contained several
dollars. AS the drawer worked by Sc
cret spring, they could not open it; but
they, however, were determined to open
it in some manner.
A common hammer lay on a shelf be-
hind them and with this instrument
they tried to break open the drawer.
But See Yuen heard the commotion
made by the boys, and rushed out to the
front of the store to see what the
trouble was.
The boys hearing him coming, stopped
operations on the money drawer; and,
as See Yuen emerged through the door
into the front office, one of 1.-The young
thugs jumped on him, catching him
by the throat and bore him back on
other rascal pulled the key out of the
main door and, jumping on the defense
less Chinaman, struck him several hard
blows in the face with the large key
tightly clutched in his right fist.
But See Yuen was game, and although
half-dead and in a fainting condition
from the effects Of the blows, he stag
gered out on the sidewalk after the cul-
prits. Not satisfied with half killing the
bi11a H1a
him again; and, after striking him sew
eral blows left him to crawl out OF the
mud as best he could.
The rascals, seeing that they would
be apprehended if they continued their
dastardly work any longer, ran up to-
wards the South Village mills, and
crossed on to the railroad tracks, going
in the direction of oxford.
Meanwhile, the officers had been noti-
fed of the assault and attempted rob-
berry, and soon Sheriff Clare, with Off
GERS Henry j. King, Gilbert Osborne,
Elias B. Wakefield and Henry @. King,
were securing the surrounding country
for the rascals.
Sheriff Clare at once started for
North Webster. Officer Osborne ex-
plored the East Webster woods. and Off
Ger H. j. King and Wakefield, with
Moses Moreau, Jr., and the Spy man,
in teams, started towards oxford, while
a posse Of local citizens, with Officer II
c. King, searched through the houses
and woods adjacent to where the fracas
took place.
The youths were not captured, but the
Spy party returned with two tramps,
who were caught halfway to Oxford.
The officers brought them down to See
Yuen, who, after scrutinizing them
closely, failed to identify them as the
ones that committed the assault and
the men were given their liberty.
Up to late hour this evening the
daring rascals had not been apprehend-
ed, and a report was current on the
streets late in the afternoon that the
youths were pupils of the Worcester
high school. A French lady who re-
sides adjacent, claims that she recog-
nized the boys as students of the above
named school. Both the boys were de-
cent-looking young fellows, dressed in
black clothes, and wore derby hats of
the same color.
See Yuen, the victim presents a sor-
rowful appearance with deep cut on
his right temple; lips badly swollen, and
minus two teeth. The affair has caused
great excitement in town, and hun
dreds have inspected the scene of the |
assault.
Several clues We're run to ground to-
night by Officers j. p Love and Eugene
Osborne, but without result Conclusive
evidence has been found that the boys
came to town on the noon freight and
that they laid in Chaseyille after COM
mitting the assault; being seen by John
F. Clare, SON Of Sheriff Glare, about $50
tonight. The description tailed with !
that given the officers. Both boys were
dressed in black. One wore a short black
overcoat the other had none. They were
fashionably attired, wore high collars, |
had on caps, dark and light respectively. |
1t is known that they boarded the
freight that left town at $50 tonight
bound for Worcester in the next to the
last car while an officer stood on the op
posite side of the car on the lookout for
them.
oxford and Worcester were tele-
graphed to be on the lookout.
COURT CASES.
number came before Judge H. J |
Bartholomew judicial mill today, but
his honor disposed of them as fast as
they appeared.
The first case on the docket was that |
of the four tramps who We're arrested |
by Sheriff Clare and officer Henry ] |
King, last Sunday. Two charges were
preferred against them. They were |
disturbance and malicious mischief. To
both charges all the prisoners pleaded |
not guilty. They were Michael Joyce |
of Wilhmantic, Peter Turner and Mi
chael Wade of New Bedford. and Mi
chael Kilday of Lowell. Kilday was
discharged Turner was sentenced to I
four months in the house of correction;
Joyce to two months, and Wade to one
month.
William Hickey and wife Ellen of New |
Bedford, on a charge of drunkenness,
were discharged.
Frank Hurley of Dover n. H. on the