The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-08
MOCK DUCkHELD FOR MURDER
rovcasS4ssINATIONS WE'RE PRE-
DICrED 4 WEEK AGO.
m, Lone white Man Lay Under Bench
o' IN tho Tneatcr While the Forty'fonrs
were. barking Chinatown story OF
tho Plot and Of Mock Duca's Ai'bi.

rho plot and OF Mock Duca's Ailbi.
For more than week there has been talk
,hont the Criminal Courts Blilding that
another killing in Chinatown was que ana
,hat members Of the On Leong Tong OF
,,hich Tom Lee IL the boss, were to he no
.',,,;rn. Just about week ago Lee 10y
nonhew of Tom Lee, said to reporter
In the court: ,r,. 4,
.vou had better watch out. There -
uoiro 70 be something doing IN about a
80 Some ten or fifteen Of our men
'.,e been picked out. 1t will come OH
IN some place that has not been toheneo
before ,....
e,,i,aron we're shot to death Sunday night
md nne fatally injured, had hitherto been
,,,rol ground. The On leong Tong
md the Hio Sing Tong, the rival orgahifa
.,one had mingled freely at the play. nut
.tn,. had never carried their warfare into
,ha ,heoter. When the managers OF the
.h.,,er asked for renewal OF Its license
"oon,,v Commissioner McAdoo held the
annlica,ion up while he made an inspec'
t;on Of the place. II was only few weeks
.ro that the Commissioner granted the
license, alter he hau 'eS
the theater was orderly
All this time Mock Duck. head OF the hip
Sing Tong and ally Of the Parkhurst 80
ciety. was very busy in Chinatown. Moet
~ the Cinnamon have an unholy rear OF
Mock although he is a little, mild hammered
,ollow with face like a woman's. 1t was
,ocalled Yesterday that 1t wasn't long ago
.h,t District Attorney Jerome had talk
9TH Mock Duck and consented to agree to
a nominal fine for an assault charge against
,bs Hin Sing leader II he would leave the
c;ty Mock Duck agreed to the proposition
.rd went TO California, but he was back In
town in few weeks.
The activities of Mock Duck put the On
1eonz Tong on edge. Tom Lee went to
Commissioner McAdoo and applied for
nernit to carry pistol. Tom assured the
Commissioner that he needed the pistol
for protection Commissioner McAdoo was
equally sure that it might be dangerous
thing in the hands Of Tom and sent him away
vithout the permit. Then Mock Duck
marched up to Police Headquarters and
asked for a permit to carry pistol. Mr..
McAdoo shooed him of at once.
Tom Lee knew his Chinatown. however
and he knew the Hip Sing longs He was
going to have some protection, ana from
that time on one Of his men marched be-
hind wherever he went. The guard carried
two guns-the "A calibre kind that are
carried in Chinatown without permits and
without punishment.
II may have been only a coincidence that
one Of Tom Lees gambling houses was to
reopen on Sunday night. The Hip Sings
are reiormers. notably their leader, Mock
Duck. Mock is 90 much of a reforner that
the Parkhurst society has taken him to its
bosom. The enemies OF Mock Duck and
the Hip Sing cay that the Hip Sings are re-
formers solely for the purpose OF getting
control OF Chinatown gambling. which
rested with the On Leong Tongs prior to
tho appearance OF Mock Duck from San
Francisco.
In the dusk Of Sunday evening loose
bloused Cinnamon fitted into the building
1t 70 Chatham square. There were . few
Of Acting Captain Eggers's men sleuthing
around tho district. Eggers. under Com
missioner McAdoo's orders. Is tho Car Of
Chinatown. No. 10 Chatham square 10 In
the Oak street precinct, for which Capt.
Hodgins Il responsible. Some ono went to
Capt. Hodgins and told him that there were
. lot Of Cinnamon gambling ct 10 Chatham
kSGers intended to Jump the place over
II Capt Hodgins had gone straight to
Nook Duck he might have learned that his
Cuses was all wrong. Mock Duck was 1t
es On Rer sofH H. a.: sna knew wh.s
going on across tho street at II BoweTy,
which happens TO be tho headquarters Of
TIE Hip Sing Tong. A couple OF the Eggers
msn paced up and down In front OF the Hip
Sing headquarters. It 10 we'll for 2 deteo-
I've to watch the hangout Of the Hip Sing
Chinatown. These two detectives were
attending to the routine Job, and they saw
several Cinnamon walk boldly into tho Hip
Sing headquarters. These Cinnamon walked
boldly because they wanted the deteotives
70 go them II was not IN Mock Ducks
The Hip Sing headquarters deserted and
wonder why.
At the same time Capt. Hodgins was do
ING some thinking. II the Eggers nnsn
were going to visit 20 Chatham Square he
~ vas going 70 get there ahead Of them So
on 20 Chatham Square just about the time,
70 the On Leong Tong men say, that q plan
was being mapped out there for the China
town theater slaughter. But you can't be-
uoNe HI longer Tolls 10 caucasian. May De
II was only a peaceful meeting to extend
the boycott Of American goods In China.
Capt. Hodgins and his men bagged twenty
two Cinnamon. The rest went over the
roofs and through a house a few doors
away to the street. Nook Duck was In
this bunch. Detective Maher, one Of
Capt. Hodgins's men, Is sure that he saw
him. Others say they saw Mock with
about twelve others dash out and scatter.
There are two versions Of what Mock
Duck did after that One Is that he went
straight to the Oak street station, picking
up few bondsmen on the way, and that
he got to the station before Capt. Hodgfns
and his prisoners. It is also true that
Tor long time after the raid the Oak street
police were not quite sure that Mock had
not been caught in the raid and slipped
another Chinaman into his place at the
police station.
The other version is that Mock Duck
went straight to the Chinese theater with
his men after Capt. Hodgins had broken
up his meeting. Whether Mock Duck
went to the station first, then went to the
theater and made a lap back to the station,
or whether he first went TO the theater
and thence to the station, it Is certain that
Mock Duck was actually at the station
house when the essassins began their work
In the theater.
From what could he learned yester day
there was one lone white man In the theater