The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-02
CHINESE JAILED; WOMEN WEEP
SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS CALL
on PUPILS IN CELLS.


t. Buy Cigarettes fer the Laundry.
men and say That the Girls IN whose
Charges Eight We're Held Are to Name.
On information furnished by girls Of
tender age the police Of the Gates avenue
station in Brooklyn rounded up and ar
rested all OF the Chinese laundrymen they
could find yesterday in the outlying wards
of Brooklyn. Later some of them were
discharged for lack of evidence. Accord
ing to the statement made last night by
Police Captain Buchanan. who superin-
tended the work Of raiding. many Of the
Cinnamon learned what was to happen and
fed after closing up their places of bust
Ness.
More arrests will follow to-day. for Capt
Buchanan says that not less than fifty
Chinese laundrymen. whose places are in
the Stuyvesant Heights district, which
il one Of the choice residential sections Of
Brooklyn, are implicated. In connection
with the case, warrants have been
issued for the arrest Of a married woman.
a Chinese merchant and girl II years old I,
all OF whom, the police say. were in plot
to bring about the ruin of Brooklyn girls.
OF the Cinnamon arrested yesterday,
four were discharged for lack Of evidence
Two were committed to Raymond Street
Jail under heavy bail. Four are now locked
up in the Gates avenue police station.
The Cinnamon held are HUI Tom. AZ years
old, IA Sumner avenue, Charles Woh
40 years old, 1888 Fulton street; Charles
Shue, rs years old. 343 Sumner avenue;
Tom Yen, 80 years old, 1883 Fulton street.
John Yuhn, % years old. 100 Rockaway
avenue; Tony Jim, 20 years old. 100 Rock
away avenue.
The white girls under arrest are Lizzie
Kane, II years old. 1918 Broadway, VIII
liamsburg and Mamie Brennan. n years
old, of POI Ralph avenue.
Tom. Woh and the two girls were ar
raigned in the Gates avenue police court
at noon Yesterday Tom was committed
to Raymond Street Jail in default OF 5000
bail and Woh in default Of $4,000 bail,
The Brennan girl was committed to the
care of the Children's Society and the
Kane girl was sent to the House Of the
Good Shepherd, where she will be held until
next Monday, when the examinations of
all of the prisoners will take place.
The other prisoners were taken into
custody after the closing Of the court.
They will be arraigned to-day before Mag
istrate Furlong
many complaints from the mothers of young
girls and had issued special orders to his
men to watch laundries. Policeman Nc.
Grower kept sharp watch over HUI Toms
laundry in Sumner avenue. He saw the
Kane girl and her companion enter Toms
laundry about II o'clock yesterday morn
ng A few minutes later he saw the China
man lock the front door. At this time the
girls were in a rear room. The policeman
crossed the street and broke open the door.
He found the Kane girl in the Chinaman's
bunk. The Brennan girl was seated on
chair The policeman said he had secured
to Sing Sing.
Magistrate Furlong questioned the girls.
They ept as they confessed that they
were members OF an organized gang
who made il q practice to procure girls
for Chinese laundrymen. A woman named
nratz. they said. was the organizer OF the
gang The money they received amour ted
to IS or SO day. Some of it went TO their
parents, who thought the girls were working
in department store.
Last night many fashionably dressed
women visited the Gates avenue police
station and wept in the corridors Of the
cells where the Cinnamon were confined.
They told Police Captain Buchanan that
they were the Sunday school teachers
of the Cinnamon behind The bars. The
<,t.- ~I4,r
to their teachers that it was not their own
fault that they had fallen from grace. but
the fault of the girls who complained.
The majority Of the women who called
at the station were young and comedy.
Two told the captain that they would pledge
their jewelry to obtain funds for HUI Toms
release.
Soon after 9 o'clock the first woman
missionary entered the police station
Il would like to see Charley Shue," she
said.
Who are you?" inquired Capt. Buchanan
.! am his Sunday school teacher, said
the young woman. My name Is Miss
Dot Livingston
Miss Livingston" said the captain,
"this Chinaman is held on a serious charge.
He is not in the cells here, but has been
committed to Raymond Street Jail. The
charge against him has been made by
fourteen year girl
"The police ought to have spanked her
instead of paying any attention TO her
story" remarked Miss Livingston.
Two young women who said they were
from the Friends Chinese Miss ion in Mon
roe street called and left a kettle OF cotiee,
some sandwiches and basket of fruit
for Charley Woh. The captain learned
that they were members OF Baptist church
in the neighborhood.
A Chinaman, who said he was Thomas
Wah, missionary connected with the
Tompkins Avenue Methodist Church q mis-
sion on Myrtle avenue. called. He was
accompanied by man who introduced
himself 10 Capt. Buchanan as Mr. Warner
They wanted to see HUI Tom, who, Wah
explained, was one OF the pillars IN the
Chinese mission connected with the Tomp-
Ixins Avenue Methodist Church.
any wife and her lady friend are outside"
said Warner. May call her in?"
Certainly" said Capt Buchanan.
Warner went to the door and beckoned
to wo women who were on the stoop. One,
who appeared to be about % years old, was
richly gowned -.
T am ar xio,s 10 see HUI Tom. I do not care
TO give my address, but I would like to talk
with him for few minutes"
ave found your address in one of the
prisoners pockets explained Capt.
Buchanan. Here it is: Mrs. Nellie Warner,
1871 Lexington avenue.
II don't know how he got my address
said Young Mrs. Warner, but am a teacher
in the Myrtle avenue mission and the only
one I am acquainted with is HUI Tom, who
ia NV Sunday school pupil"
Mrs Warner talked with three of the
prisoners and after glancing at the
fourth said that she was not acquainted
with any Of them. -,