The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-08

out difficulty, and the suspect was taken
to police headquarters, where he
sweated vigorously. His manner was nerv-
Gus, and his eyes, furtively evading the
direct glances Of the detectives. testified
to his uneasiness. His statements were
contradictory, and Captain Gerber caught
him fatty in at least three direct false
hoods. He was not admitted to bail and
his case will come up for hearing this
morning in Police Court. 1t will be con-
tinued for two weeks in order to give the
detectives sufficient time to complete the
details of what they consider to be an in
controvertible array of discriminating evil
dence.
BY Captain Gerber Chin Hee was sus-
pected from the first. Theories that the
atrocty was committed by negro were
rejected by Gerber and his associates in
the work after they had been on the case
two hours. There were too many things
they found, that pointed to the fine hand
of an Oriental in the brutal business With
all the blood and the other shocking de-
tails, it was at once seen that the crime
had been committed cleverly, with careful
attention TO detail, and evidently by some
one who was thoroughly familiar with the
lay of Doc Lungs laundry. There was
something that pointed to a Chinaman and
a particular Chinaman in the manner by
which entry made to the laundry when
the murder was done; another finger
stretched in Chin Hees direction when it
noticed how the cash drawer had been
opened; something else singled him out
when it was found that Doc Lung had
deposited $3.50 in the Indiana National
Bank on Saturday; the manner of the
crime suggested Chinaman rather than
a negro. Bit by bit the detectives went
ahead. picking up a thread here and
thread there, until the rope of circum-
stances was so strong that it landed Chin
Hee in the police station. Over his head
there is a mass of circumstantial evidence
that Captain Gerber believes will covict
him easily.
WORKING ON A CLEw
Working on the assumption that Chin
Hee was a man it were we'll to watch. the
detectives found that he had come to work
for Doc Lung in the latter's laundry last
Friday. He worked Friday and Saturday
and Saturday night and left Doc Lungs
employ He took his belongings and went
to E. Lungs laundry on North Delaware
street, where he engaged a place to sleep.
Since that time he has been at e Lungs
and there he was found heavily sleeping
when Captain Gerber shook his arm and
arrested him last night.
He told Captain Gerber that after gam
bling at f. Lungs Sunday night he had
gone TO bed about / o'clock Monday morn
ing. He did not leave his bed, he swore,
until o'clock the next morning The de-
tectives had already ascertained that he
had got up at o'clock in the morning and
had taken two shirts to the laundry Of Hop
Sing. on North Illinois street. where he left
them to be washed. 1t is believed by the
detectives that the shirts were spotted with
blood and that Chin Hee, instead of hav-
ing them laundered at +. Lungs, where
he himself was staying, considered IL safer
TO take them 10 Hop Sings. Hop Sing told
the detectives that Chin Hee had come to
his place at o'clock with two shirts one
an outside garment and the other an un-
dershirt, but that he had not thought any
thing strange about the matter, nor had
he glanced closely at the shirts He could
not tell, he said whether they had blood
on them or not.
Chin Hee declared excitedly that he had
not been In the neighborhood of Doc Lungs
place Sunday night. but the detectives have
evidence that Will show he was recognized