The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-14
TWO CHIN AMEN ACCUSED.
Lee Lee Arrested and Wang Song
Sought on Charges of Assault.

One Chinaman under arrest and another
wanted by the police. r. the result of a
story told last night at No. / station by
Sophia Stearns. fifteen years of age, who
accuses Lee Lee. aged thirty years. OF
criminal assault upon her. Lee occupies
a cell at the station. while the girl spent
last night at the. House of Detention.
She is held as a United States witness.
Wang Song, Chinaman. has disappeared,
but the police are searching for him, on
suspicion that he also attempted to as
sauit the young girl.
Policeman Samson has watched the
laundry of Lee Lee, who is also known
as Lee Jung. so the police say, for sew
eral weeks. because of complaints that
young girls had been seen lettering in and
about the place. Saturday last Police
man Murphy. while patrolling his beat.
was sum noned to the laundry, and in
making al arrest of a Chinaman. exper-
fenced fierce struggle with his prisoner.
This arrest proved to be a forerunner OF
further trouble and resulted, it is said.
from plants similar to those which
caused the arrest of Lee yesterday after
noon. Miss Stearns has admitted that she
went to the laundry on two occasions. the
police sar, and claims that she was at
tackled by both Lee Lee and Wang Song
on SATURDAY last. Lee Lee employed a
lawyer Ii - night, and made no statement
at all.
According to Miss Stearns, who was
taken into custody late in the afternoon
by Samson, and who made statement
to Lieutenant Amiss and others. Lee Lee
and Wang Song were in the laundry Of
the former at ~ Ninth Street northwest
Saturday as she passed by on her way
down town. Wang Song saw her and
called to her. She stopped. and finally en-
tered his place to what was the matter
Wang Song said he had some beads to
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and Miss Stearns appears to have gone
back with him, leaving Lee Lee in the
front of the place. In the rear room, Miss
StearnS says, Wang Song attempted to
assault her. She resisted, and Song final
ly gave up the attempt, as Lee entered
the room from the front of the laundry.
Song - came confused and offered the
girl 45 cents, which she claims to have re-
fused.
Miss Stearns states that Lee then at
tackled her, before she could escape from
the place. and assaulted her. She called
for assistance. and Lee became fright
ened and finally permitted her to quit the
laundry. after giving her a small amount
of money. This, Miss Stearns says. she
the girl says she did not know just what
to do. and she went home. rather than
undergo the embarrassment of revealing
the treatment accorded her by the China
man. Yesterday. however. Policeman Sam
son learned of the attack on Miss Stearns
and arrested her, pending investigation of
the matter. Afterward She told all she
knew, and Lee was subsequently, arrested
He was identified by Miss Stearns at the
station and will be arraigned this morning
in the Police Court for a preliminary
hearing.
At the House of Detention last night
Miss Stearns. who lives with her mother
a 81 First Street northwest. told of her
treatment at the hands of the Cinnamon.
She was introduced to the Cinnamon. she
said. by Ada Quintnn. who lives at 109
Massachusetts Avenue northwest. She
could not remember the occasion of her
first visit. On one occasion. said Miss
Stearns, the Quinton girl, who was on
good terms with the Cinnamon, borrowed
some money from Lee jung one of the
Cinnamon. With this money the girls
went down the river. The party was COM
posed of herself, Ada Quinton, and Katie
Stearns, the eighteen-year-o sister of
Sophia. Katie had never been in the