The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-21
FOUR SHOT IN CHINATOWN.
FIRING ~ ANOT IiER STREET HtD
DEfOSED THE POLTCE.

WI e They We're Around the Corner Battle
IN a Pcli street Room Left Four Men
wounded All OF the HUE Family. hut
They Swear they Never Heard Of Tong
Six pistol shots fred from the roof Of IS
Mott street about o'clock last night
formed the overture to Chinatown's regular
Sunday night entertainment. The six shots
meant nothing. They simply drew the
police 10 Mott street and left Pell street
free Within few minutes four Cinnamon
we're shot on the third floor Of IS Pell street.
Two we're seriously, and two slightly hurt,
The streets Of Chinatown we're packed
when the firing began In Mott street. In
front Of the On IAons longs headquarters,
at "A Mott street, where old Tom Lee lives,
the sidewalk was alive with ohattering men
who appeared TO make themselves az con-
spicuos az possible. Sightseers were
thick, dozens OF women among them,
walking along the street or drinking tea
in the restaurants.
Two policemen we're In front OF the On
Leong Tong house when the shots we're
fred. They ran across the street and
rushed up the stairs Of is TO the roof. Thero
wasn't Chinaman In sight and the only
sign Of the pistol firing was the blue smoke
Roundsman Costigan, Eggerss head man
In Chinatown, was in front OF the Chinese
theater, In Doyers street, when he heard
the shots. He ran TO Mott street with
Detectives Seaman and Murray, and after
them came every policeman stationed IN
Chinatown.
They searched is Mott street and the adj
Joining houses from cellar to garnet and all
they found was some dozens OF blank faced
Cinnamon who knew nothing and had
heard nothing. Across the street. at "a
Mott street the On Ieong Tong men were
az ignorant.
While the police we're clearing Mott street.
there was a popping Of guns from around
the corner in Pell street. Policeman Clare
swung around on the run, yelling for some
body to call an ambulance and notify Eliza
beth street station TO turn out the reserves
on the jump.
There 9 a room on the third hoor OF Is
Pell that's regular slaughter house, sald
Clare.
Costigan and his men ran into Pell street
and up the stairs Of Ia to the third hoor'
The hallway was blue with smoke, 80 thick
that at first Costigan couldn't tell what
had happened. Then, In one OF half
dozen small rooms opening Oh the hall
he saw three Cinnamon on the floor shrek
Ing With pain while eight or nine more were
wiping the blood from them and trying
to tie up wounds.
Another Chinaman stood In the back OF
the room. moaning with pain and holding
his light arm. A tea table had been knocked
over. a bunk WAS upset and broken pipes
Uttered the floor. The back wall of the
room was Clipped by bullets and it looked
as II fifteen or twenty shots had been fired
Acting Captain Tracy Of the Elizabeth
street station got there about then, ana
with Costigan closed the door Of the room
and held everybody inside prisoners.
One OF the Cinnamon on the floor, HUE
Chone Yu. would have bled to death then
and there II a policeman hadn't made a
rude tourniquet and stanched the flow
from his right arm. DR.. Merrill came from
the Hudson Street Hospital and took HUE
ChonR Yu and HUE Wong, who was shot
In the thigh and right arm, to the hospital.
HUE Yee and HUE Va we're scratched by
bullets. the first on the right shoulder and
the other on the right hip. DR.. Merrill
patched them up on the spot.
HUE Hong Hing, who lives in the room.
told the police what had happene. HUE
Hong Hing was giving tea party for his
cousins. There were Huies there from
BROOKLYN. The Bronx and Manhattan. They
were sitting said HUE Hong Hing, peaoeably
drinking tea, when the door was suddenly
burst open and four Cinnamon stood on
the threshold and began firing That was
about all the head Of the house OF HUE
could remember for he dived under the
bunk.
He insisted that he didn't know who did
the shooting and wouldn 7 be able to identify
anybody. Neither, said he. did any Of the
family belong to a tong. He was 40 en-
phatio on that point that the police got
suspicious. The cousins Of HUE huddled in
the back OF the room and were mum as
oysters. The room was not pretty. for
blood was everywhere and the furniture
was topsy turvy. To the right and left OF
the place were rooms full OF stolid yellow
men who hadn't seen thing or heard
sound, they said. and the police gave up
In disgust.
Capt, Tracy arrested seven Of the Huie
cousins and took them to the Elizabeth
street station a. witnesses, although HUE
Hong Hing begged tearfully that they
might be let 60. They were innocent
laundrymen, said HUE. The seven are:
HUE Tong OF es East l26th street. HUE Yee
of 2oi East Fifty-si1th street. HUE Duck
OF 2ol East Fifty sixth street. HUE Chez Of
COS East ls4th street, HUE Fong Of seS East
1s4th street, HUE Chung Of IA varick street
and HUE Ling Of IS East i2oth street.
Roundsman Costigan, noting the gaiety
at the On Leong Tong headquarters. went
around to IL Bowery, the headquarters Of
the Hip Sing Tong. There was gloom and
angry chattering in the room. It appeared
from what Costigan learned that the gun
play at IS Pell street was fine stroke Of the
On Leong Tong, although said Costigan,
aThe Lord knows who is lying Hip
Sing informers said that the shooting was
done by the On Leong Tong gun artists
and that tho whole thing vas shrewdly
planned.
First Of all, several On Leong Tong
brethren slipped to the roof Of is Mott
street and fired six shots as decoy. Then,
said the Hep Sing crowd, they scooted on
the roof and hustled around to IS Pell street,
where they finished the nights work with