The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-12
RAID ON BOSTON CHINAMEN
TO BE ILLEGALLY IN
THIS COUNTRY.
$50 Arrested by immigration Omcials
and Police and Locked Up in Post
once BuildinE--Every One who Could
Not Show Registration Papers Seized.

and Police and Locked Up In Post
once BuIldins-Every One Who Could
Not Show Registration Papers Seized.
BosToN, Mass, Oct. 1l-A lot OF wash
ings will not be done in the Chinese laun-
dries Of Boston and neighboring towns
and cities tomorrow. Early tonight the
immigration officials United States deputy
marshals and a crowd Of Boston police
men made wholesale raid on Chinatown
and arrested $50 Celestials on the ground
that they were not legally in this country.
More would have been taken had there
been room for them in the Federal Building.
Every Chinaman that did not have his
registration papers with him was scooped
in and the residents of that section Of the
city were terror stricken at the sight of the
bluecoats.
The raid began at o'clock and for nearly
two hours the officers were kept busy hunt
ing houses from cellar to garnet for the
laundrymen. Restaurants were also
searched and in fact every place where a
Chinaman could be, except the stores Of
the merchants, was hunted through.
Some found on the streets were arrested
and sent to the Federal Building where they
will have to sleep standing for the remain
der of the night unless friends put in an APP
pearnnce with registration papers.
At 100 O'Clock twenty United States
officers. headed by immigration Commits
sioner Billings and squad OF thirty police
men in command of Capt. Larry Cain Of
Division 4, rendezvoused at the corner Of
Chauncey and Bedford streets.
Instructions were then given and the
officers separated and closed up all streets
leading from Chinatown, which centralizes
on Harrison avenue, between Beach and
kneeland streets.
The United States officers. being in plain
clothes, led the way into the lodging houses
and restaurants. When told that they We're
under arrest, the Cinnamon SGT up wild
outcry and attempted to escape.
Police patrol wagons, electric cars and
barges from the steamship wharves were
pressed into service and by 10 o'clock all
the Cinnamon We're housed in three rooms
at the post Office. Here guard of police
men and deputy marshals was set over
them for the night.
One big barge used to cart immigrants
from a steamship wharf, loaded tonight
with Cinnamon, capszed on Harrison
avenue, when an effort was being made to
crowd ten more of the laundrymen into the
vehicle.
When the barge went over upon the
cobblestones, a panic seized the occu-
pants and many tried to escape.
Three cops were hurt and one old China
man had some ribs broken He was not
taken to the Federal Building, but to the
hospital Many of the more unwilling pas
sengers were bruist in the upset.
Col. Billings, the immigration Commits
sioner here. said that the cause of the raid
was an effort to weed out the unregistered
Cinnamon. He said the plan had been
in his mind for weeks and that he thought
tonight was good time to spring
crowded with out of town celestas
who had come to the city this afternoon
to attend the funeral of Won Yak Chong
the man murdered few nights ago by n
supposed member of the Highbinders
Col. Billings added that rs fast as a China
man sent for the papers which proved him
to be legally in this country. he would be
released. The others will be ARA igned
before one Of the United States Commits
sioners later.
Capt. Cain Of Division 4 says that the
Boston police organized the raid and that
the United States officials wre asked to Join
80 that there would he some pretext for
arresting the Cinnamon.
He says that unless something was done
to strike terror to the hearts of the China
men in this city the murder of Wong Yak
Chong, a member Of the Hep Sing Tong,
by a member Of the On Lcung Tong. the
rival society, the members Of the former
organization would he sure to avenge the
killing Of Chong and riots would result.
Several Of the arrested Cinnamon were
released soon after being taken to the
Federal building. The white wife of Mel
rose laundryman came in person to obtain
the keys of the laundry from her husband
SO that she could get his papers