The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-31
LOO HEE WAS MURDERED.
FOUND DEAD IN RJS JAUNDRT,
wound IHROUGH HIS HEART.

Seems 10 Have Been stabbed to Death
With IL Stifetto or n Glass DnEGer-He lie
Said to Have Been the Foe of the Chinese
| GRmbiers-Chin Gins suicide Recailc d
| Loo Hee. an inoffensive Chinese laundry
| man. was found dead IN his shop at 2O3 West
! Fifty third street yesterday morning. Ho had
| been stabbed through the heart. HIS body was
| found In sitting posture on chair behind
| the counter. his back resting against the
money drawer. The head had fallen back and
| the mans right arm was thrown across his face
almost as though he had tried to hide some
thing from his view. The gas in the laundry
was burning brightly. as It had been left on the
| previous night.
The Coroner's Office was requested to take
| care OF q Cbinaman's suicide and the body was
| sent to the MorRue. s. Weston. Coroner Hart Q
| physician saw II there soon afterward and m ade
| an autopsy. Immediately afterwari he tele-
! graphed this message to Police Headquarters:
| Cause OF death in case OF Loo Hee. stab
wound in heart. internal hemorrhaGe."
Central Office was soon at work on the case
after this message had been received They
learned that Loo Hoe was brother OF Loo Lin.
one Of the owners Of a restaurant at IA Mott
| street. They also learned that Hee merely
managed and did not own the laundry where
his body was found. They found the owner.
Wah Kee. In laundry at S0S Seventh avenue
and heard from him that the dead man had q
few enemies. The same persons. Wah Kee
said. we're enemies OF Chin Gin. the Chinaman
who was found dead on Tuesday morning in
his restaurant at Doyers street
In the Morgue the bodies of both Cinnamon
lay side by side on adjoining slabs when the
Coroner's physicians examined them yesterday
afternoon. Dr. Hamilton Williams made an
autopsy on the body OF Ohm Gin and decided.
as 1t had been generally believed. that death
WINS due to poison. probably I've.
Loo Hee. the detectives learned. was last seen
alive Fat n O'Clock ON Tuesday night. In
the morning boy who did errrands for the
Chinaman passed the laundry on the way to
the corner grocery. The boy. Robert McGar-
rett OF 100 West Fifty-third street, thought II
strange to sec the gas burning in the laundry.
and on his way back from the grocery store he
shouted to the Chinaman. and receiving no
answer. entered the place to search for him.
He saw the Chinaman behind the counter and
called to him to wake up. Then he picked up
feather duster from the counter and decided
to have some fun with Loo by tickling his
neck. The Chinnmnn did not move and the
boy placed his hand on Loo's face.
In tho meantime q neighbor had called In
Policeman Beacruft. who had found blood
stain on the left sido OF the Chinaman's shirt.
After sending n call for an ambulance the
policeman searcneu tne rooms IN tne rear OF
tho laundry. The Chinaman's bed had not
been slept in and nothing in the place appeared
to have been disturbed. The money drawer
behind Foo's body was locked.
The news OF the death travelled rapidly to
Chinatown, though at that time foul play
was not suspected by the police. Half an hour
after the body was discovered. groups OF
Cinnamon stood on the Pell and Mott street
corners discussing the case The tong or clan
of Low, OF which Loo Hee was n member. said
that an enemy had killed him-probably a
member OF the Chinese gamblers secret
soclety Loo had recently had trouble with
the Chinatown gamblers. they said. At any
rate, the news OF his death was publicly an
nounced by the lookouts at the doors OF the
Pell street bling houses.